To think this is beyond negligence?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148521/Dramatic-moment-10-month-old-baby-girl-rescued-Turkish-coastguard-floated-KILOMETRE-sea-inflatable-family-forgot-water.html

I know we all make mistakes but come on, how can you leave a baby unattended in the sea for even a minute? Don't know where this family are from but I hope somebody finds them and has a stern word?

How can anyone here try to downplay it because the link is The Daily Mail??

Snooty and snobby or what?

This has been on all news outlets that I have seen today. The parents were sunbathing and forgot their baby, and only realised when OTHER PEOPLE raised the alarm.

I am judging them and finding them bloody negligent. This is not a case of tired and exhausted parents being sleepy and getting caught out, nor one parent thinking the other was watching - no, this is as is reported in many reports - they forgot their 10 mth old baby.

You lot are normally all quick to hoist your judgy knickers up to great hights and almost make the knicker elastic self combust, and yet this being a link from the fail makes several of you all reasonable and making excuses, or even making out it is a total false article.

You lot are normally all quick to hoist your judgy knickers up to great hights and almost make the knicker elastic self combust, and yet this being a link from the fail makes several of you all reasonable and making excuses, or even making out it is a total false article

well its not as if everything the papers print is true is it. god knows alot of false crap about benefits and Muslims or teachers or whatever vendetta there seems to be at the time is printed. so its ok to put people straight on those articles but not to question others that make no sense?

This article to me makes no sense.

Anyone else think she looks over 10 months?! They shared the poor little girls' name as well :(

It's all just shit journalism (can't believe people even read the daily mail lol) and I would give the family the benefit of the doubt.

I really wouldn't take it that anything in that story is true other than the bear fact that the baby drifted away in a current and was rescued.
And the only possible explanation for a baby ending up in that position, is the negligent behaviour of the parents.
When you put a baby in a float, you do not let go of them - not for a second, and the currents didn't drag this baby away from the parents as they were in the sand.

Weird place this is.
On one thread people are combusting because parents went for a dirty weekend while the kids had chickenpox and on this thread the benefit of the doubt is being given to parents who neglected their infant while in the sea simply because the mail is one of the many media sources reporting the story you can't make it up

Well in fairness the kid looks older than reported in the article so that's one question already. ..

And if you read my post properly you will see that I have seen this on other news outlets - I haven;t read the fails article, I read the article on the BBC website (among others).

I'm amazed they were allowed to take their baby home. I doubt they would have been allowed to in the UK. I know it was in the Mail, but it was also a story carried via many other media outlets so I do believe it.

Do people think that the type of parents who are subject to having their children removed by Social Services for negligence never go on holiday?

I can believe it's true. I lived by the coast for years, and never stopped being mindboggled by the dangerous things tourists would do.

Why doesn't the story make sense?

It makes perfect sense.

Twatty parents forgot they put their baby in the sea in the inflatable pool and didn't notice until the rescue was happening.

It is being reported all over the place. I at least hope SS will get involved as there is no excuse for it is there?

When I was a nipper on beach holidays, I used to spend all day messing about in the sea with a variety of inflatable things, with my parents just distant dots right up the beach. I think I only ever saw them when I wanted something to eat or it was time to go home. Never did me any harm! (etc). I know this is a much more extreme example but it did remind me how much more safety conscious most of us are these days.

She I don't think it does make sense.

There's very little detail. I mean the media have all reported the same thing but it's all padded out very few actual facts.

For starters the kid looks older than reported.

usually with these kind of stories there's comments from the parents urging others to not make the same mistake.

you just don't forget you have a baby. There's no report that they were mentally ill or drunk or on drugs or something.

The kid was given straight back to the parents.

things happen to people and children every day. People die every day in horrible ways. Thanks to modern day phones there's never a shortage of footage either.

I do wonder why this story made it to the media when due to lack of any comments or reports of the situation before hand or whatever there is very little that's been said.

I'm. not saying it didn't happen. obviously it did but I still think theres something weird about it all

Maybe they thought their kid was moses.

The baby was 10 months old. I don't think she looked any older than that, but even if she was, at what age would it be acceptable to put your child in a floatation device and leave them unsupervised in the sea?

I don't understand the level of denial on this. There is a video showing how far out to sea the baby was and the coastguards having to rescue her. There is no plausible way that baby got these unless the parents were negligent.

I am a relaxed parent by many people's standards but I am paranoid near water.

I wouldn't let my 6 and 8 year old paddle in the sea without me, dh or her older brother's beside them.

The only time I think I would leave them with a flotation device unsupervised is when they have left home and have their own children

The sea scares me.

It IS beyond negligent. A ten month old in a dingy whom the parents "forgot"? FUCK! No excuse. Jesus!

She looks 10m old to me!

I read this on the bbc first and they were quite neutral about the whole thing but the negligence seems to stem from the fact it was other beach goers who tried to help and her parents seemed oblivious

What stupid, negligent parents. There ive said it its true!
They are so very lucky :(

There are people who seem able to leave their brains behind when they go on holiday.

Way, way, way beyond negligence.

saw that on the BBC news
how do you "forget"
more to this

We live near the beach and are there regularly after school and at weekends and I see some incredibly risky behaviour during summer season when the tourists arrive. I can quite believe the parents in this case Sat her on the shore line at low tide and then the tide came in which caused her to float away.

Just glad she's safe.

I guess they left her in the inflatable crib - asleep maybe? - on the beach near them. They lie there for a while, zone out, tide comes in a bit, enough to the take the inflatable out with it. This is the reasonable explanation for an awful story where the parents seem to be 100% at fault - I just cannot imagine this happening to anyone keeping even half an eye out for their child.

X post coffee!

That's what I mean sam

the mail would have gleefully strung them.up for every impure thought or parking ticket in 1965 or the time they took an E at college. but there's nothing. not a single thing.

The suspicious side of me is wondering what the hell.is being covered up here.