3 year old boy (Noah) missing in Brantham, Suffolk

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5yev2v1x29o

Oh God bless him! Every parents worse nightmare!

None of this thread is going to make the family feel any better. As for rumours, given the people gleefully recounting what they heard or read, that has already been happening

Any three year old could outrun an adult easily because when you get to a path with a left or right you will not not which way they’ve gone and if you pick the wrong way it gives them valuable time to go further afield. Most estates have lots of interlinked paths.
If you’ve watch police programs you will see that sometimes it takes three police officers and a heat seeking helicopter to catch someone who is running through a warren of roads, footpaths and alleys.

Your laughing emojis are sickening.

A child is missing, this is not something for your entertainment.

In fairness, so are a lot of posters with their ghoulish speculation

I hope they find him :-(
my dd legged it off a bus once. She was a bit younger than 3. We were getting off, the bus was rammed and as soon as the doors opened she slipped out of my hand and full on legged it off the bus. Small children can run fast 🙈

I think the deletions on this thread speaks volumes

I'd like to see a job description.
Must have eyes at the back of the head, the agility and herding ability of a border collie, ability to see round corners essential, must be able to keep a cool head when a 3-yr old decides running off is fun...

Plenty of parents fall into that group. Should we prevent anyone who can't run a couple of KMs from having children or working in childcare?

This is (tragically) the most mental thread Ive ever read on here.

Still checking it waiting for news.

One thing we can agree on is we want that little boy found safely

I think that there are many illustrations on this thread as to why MN should ban any discussion of active missing person cases. Probably a few other categories as well, but it would be a start.

No offense meant to the many posters expressing concern and sympathy, as opposed to the Poundshop Miss Marples, the tricoteuses who are judging the family on no more evidence than the rest of us have and those who seemingly don't understand why a tiny, vulnerable missing child would be a massive priority for the police.

DP and me managed to lose sight of both of our DC (then aged 4 & 6) at the indoor play area in Folly Farm, Wales. We were both keeping an eye on them but got distracted for less than a minute to discuss something and suddenly we couldn’t see either of them. We spent 15 minutes going through the huge labyrinth like play area and surrounding area before finding them in the adjoining farmyard looking at some lambs. It happened in a flash.

I used to judge parents who ‘let their children wander off’ but have never done so again since that incident.

Oh give it a rest, eh.

My SEN 4 year old couldn’t outrun me. But if I fell over whilst running after him, he could very, very easily get far enough away to lose sight. I don’t know anyone who could claim to be immune from falling over when running in a panic.

Yes. Obviously like (almost) all parents have.

This whole thread needs taking down. The level of disrespect is off the charts.

I used to live a few miles away from Brantham. It's a lovely, friendly village full of community spirit. Everyone will be distraught on Noah and his family's behalf. Poor, poor little boy. Any three year old, with or without disabilities, can give their parents and carers the slip in the twinkling of an eye. They have no sense of danger at that age. Noah's grandfather must be absolutely beside himself, poor man. I pray for a happy outcome even at this late stage when everything seems hopeless.

I also think this thread should be pulled.

Sadly there is only one overwhelmingly likely outcome here. This thread is just knitting at the gallows.

Try buying shoes for 2 young children. Houdini was out of the buggy and gone in a split second.
I can't say anything though, I was the same. My poor parents.

You could try reporting it, but I’m guessing you’ll also get this response…

Thank you for getting in touch and reporting that thread - we do, of course, understand why you did. Sadly, as this is such a big news story at the moment we know people will want to talk about it, and as a discussion site we will be letting the conversation continue, while removing any posts which are reported to us which we find to break our Talk guidelines.

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Best wishes,
Kim
MNHQ

So I can hide the nastiness, which makes it all alright…

I just reported it, yet to get a response.

Yes this is often the case, desperately wanting to reassure themselves it won’t happen to them because they are “better parents” and throwing blame around to make that case.
Sad sacks.

Tell me you don’t have a child with ASD who NEEDS reins in order to prevent them being squashed by a car whilst you’re fucking BLINKING

I was in my twenty's when my children were small and toddlers are bloody fast runners!