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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Mothers do it all the time all over the world, either physically leaving them, or by catching up on some well deserved sleep.
Don't forget, if you're bathing one child, the other is normally left alone in another room, after all, you shouldn't leave a child in the bath...
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I agree, but that's completely different from making a decision to leave your children alone, whilst you are somewhere else enjoying a meal. They were
not bathing their children. They were
not catching up on well deserved sleep. They were out enjoying themselves.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
...If you left a child alone in your house for 2 hours, would you expect it to be abducted?...
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I can honestly say that I would never,
ever leave 3 children of that age alone in a house. Full stop. There is no knowing what might happen to them. Responsible parents just wouldn't do it.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
...They had no way of knowing that their daughter had been targetted, and as has already been pointed out, if they hadn't taken her during the night, then they'd have grabbed their oppertunity at another time...
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There is no way of knowing this for certain, and it could only happen if they were left alone, again.
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Wasn't it her bedroom window that was forced open?
Her siblings weren't woken either were they?
So you're saying that if her parents were next door, then the window would have made more noise? Or the abducter would have made more noise? Simply because the parents were in the next room?
How do you work that one out?
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I am
saying nothing of the sort!
However, would the abducter still have struck, knowing that there were 2 adults around? I think not.
As for the siblings, I don't know if they were woken or not. Has it been reported anywhere? Are they at an age where they could give accurate answers anyway?