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6 yr old abducted from her bath

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foxinsocks · 28/12/2005 17:04

How horrendous is this

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biglipskissinunderthemistletoe · 28/12/2005 17:05

OMG!!! - she is so lucky to be found!

FairyTaleinNewYork · 28/12/2005 17:05

omg! thats awful.

LadyTophamHatt · 28/12/2005 17:06
Shock
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foxinsocks · 28/12/2005 17:09

yes wasn't she lucky to be found so quickly (but sadly, not quick enough)

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monkeytrousers · 29/12/2005 10:30

The local news are stressing that there was no witnesses (no word on forensics either) and that while they are taking it seriously it may also just be a little girl with an overactive imagination..horrible as it may seem, lets hope so..

SackAche · 29/12/2005 10:35

How could a Stranger enter the house..... KNOWING that the girl would be alone in the bath.... and KNOWING that he wouldn't be seen or heard by her Mum whilst he walked through the whole house??? Something quite strange here don't you think?

WHY would he enter the house???????? It sounds very organised to me..... poor wee thing .

WHERE THE FECK WAS HER MOTHER??? The house ain't that big, its not like she was in the East Wing whilst her dd bathed in the West Wing!

sparklymieow · 29/12/2005 10:37

It was a ground floor bathroom, My SIL had one and it was at the back of the house

charlietherednosedpussy · 29/12/2005 10:40

Downstairs bathroom, window open, mum upstairs getting a towel from the airing cupboard, easily done I suppose.

SackAche · 29/12/2005 10:47

Charlie - He didn't take her out the window though.... he walked through the house!

What I mean is what was his thought process..... why would he walk in the back door and not presume her Mum was right there? Was he planning on knocking her out? He would have to have planned for her Mum to be with her.

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foxinsocks · 29/12/2005 11:48

Our house is laid out in a similar way (I imagine from the description). It's a standard terraced workman's cottage.

The kitchen (think long and thin) leads into the bathroom (the back end of the house) separated by an area where there is a door to the garden so theoretically, if that back door was open, you could literally step into the house, turn left and be in the bathroom (or turn right and walk through the kitchen and into the house).

The problem with these terraced houses is that everyone has a little back garden and behind the back garden is a passage that runs behind all the houses. I imagine (although I don't know) that the layout of this little girl's house is very similar so all you would have to do is stakeout the house a bit to get a feeling for where everyone was in the house.

He was chancing his luck that the mother didn't walk back in towards the bathroom though.

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Blossomgoodwill · 29/12/2005 11:49

Sent a shiver down my spine. Especially as I am a mother of a 6 yr old little girl

WideWebWitch · 29/12/2005 11:50

Oh god, this is so, so awful, how horrendous.

MerryKidMas · 29/12/2005 11:50

As awful as it seems, something just doesn't seem right.

It reminds me of the story of the little girl that was raped in Basildon. That turned out to be made up.

Bozza · 29/12/2005 11:53

Yes foxinsocks thats exactly the kind of house we lived in when at university in Durham (old miner's cottage) and my friend has one now. The man would have known the house layout and probably worked it out. The back door being unlocked was the key issue because I think 6yo is OK to be left in bath.

bambi06 · 29/12/2005 11:55

if it was made up why would she choose to wander.NAKED!!outside in the freezing cold!!! there are easier stories to make up and i really hope they catch the %£!!*$"!!

Frizbethebumpedupreindeer · 29/12/2005 11:56

OMG that poor girl and her family.....

tuppenceworth · 29/12/2005 11:57

Is it just me that religiously locks the doors when I'm inside the house?? Just common sense really!

Socci · 29/12/2005 11:57

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MerryKidMas · 29/12/2005 11:58

I did read that the neighbours said there is no crime round there so most of them leave their back doors unlocked or sometimes ajar. You can't open my doors from the outside without a key anyway but I'd never take the chance.

I have a 6 year old DD too and this story is one of many that terrify me.

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foxinsocks · 29/12/2005 11:58

what doesn't make sense (not being confrontational, just wondering)?

She obviously didn't make up the sexual assault bit otherwise the police wouldn't have been so confident in releasing that fact.

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DoesntChristmasDragOn · 29/12/2005 12:00

This sounds very suspicious.

Which doesn't make it any less horrific though.

Socci · 29/12/2005 12:02

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foxinsocks · 29/12/2005 12:06

oh I see - if the mother was upstairs, all he would have to have done is take about 5 steps inside the house (through the back door) to grab her out of the bath. I imagine she would have screamed although he could have put his hand over her mouth etc. The mother can't have been that close by but there are loads of places she could have been where it still would have been possible for him to take her (like chatting to neighbours out the front etc.).

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Bozza · 29/12/2005 12:07

If her mother was upstairs or watching TV in the front room a stranger could have sneaked in the back door turned into the bathroom and taken the child. And no I don't lock my back door religiously. The front one has a yale and so is automatically locked. However my bathroom is upstairs.

Bozza · 29/12/2005 12:07

Also possibly could have not been a stranger.