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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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myrrhthamoo · 29/12/2005 22:45

I always lock the door. It's completely automatic - we live on a busy main road. Can be quite embarrassing sometimes as people come in to read the meter, I lock the door on autopilot, and they can't get out (and look at me as if to say "What kind of weirdo are you, missus?")

merrySOAPBOXingday · 29/12/2005 22:46

Socci, have you got/had a 6YO?

I'd have no hestation whatsoever leaving dd(7)
or ds(5) in the bath alone. ?They can both swim several lengths of a pool, so I'm unsire of what harm a bath would be likely to cause?

Socci · 29/12/2005 22:50

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Socci · 29/12/2005 22:55

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lockets · 29/12/2005 22:55

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gomez · 29/12/2005 22:56

I leave a 5 year old in the bath alone and toddle about all over the house.

We have over the years had a number of houses with downstairs bathrooms and have never had a curtain/blind on any of them - frosted glass what else do you need.

Up until recently (when some git sneaked into the kitchen and nabbed my bag plus two phones being charged) never locked the doors when in the house - even when we lived in the centre of Edinburgh. I am more scared of being roasted alive than somebody breaking in - even now I am really crap. In fact I have just checked and neither the back or conservatory doors are locked.

Different strokes for different folks. I really just feel heart-sorry for this little girl and her family. One thought thou' if they were hiding/running away from another family member or friend I would have thought the mum would have been very security aware?

Janh · 29/12/2005 22:56

Latest reports state that the child didn't know the perpetrator.

Janh · 29/12/2005 23:00

In our house - which fortunately has the bathroom upstairs - anyone in the kitchen hears nothing from the rest of the house if the dishwasher/extractor/radio is on. If our bathroom was off the kitchen, as bathrooms in many of this type of house are, then if the adult in the house popped upstairs for something the bathroom would be totally out of earshot.

ParrupupumScum · 29/12/2005 23:02

Poor little girl.

stitch · 29/12/2005 23:02

of course gomez, frosted glass would be enough!

lockets · 29/12/2005 23:03

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gomez · 29/12/2005 23:11

Sorry Stich I always thought it was.

Have I been flashing my wobbly bits to the neighbours over the years - my word what a horrendous thought.

Elf1981 · 30/12/2005 00:11

I heard this today and have had a chill down my spine all day. What callous people there are in the world, not only to snatch a six year old away from her home and assult her, but to abandon her naked in this weather.

Never assume that your area is safe. My mum and dad live in a little village, very quiet. Last week a 15year old girl got off the bus on a main road, was grabbed from behind, pulled into a nearby field and raped. This is in the village where the most the police usually have to do is find owners for lost property etc.

And always lock all the doors. My MIL never locks her front door, leaves it open at night etc (no young kids in the house, youngest is 16). She awoke one night to find a six foot stranger asleep at the bottom of her bed. He'd been dropped off by taxi, pi$$ed as anything and thought it was his home (turned out to live miles away!), walked into the house and got into bed. The 16year old girls bedroom was next door. Luckily nothing awful happened, but that's just luck.

I lock the door the moment I get into the house. Annoys the hell out of DH but better safe than sorry!

Socci · 30/12/2005 00:14

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sparklymieow · 30/12/2005 00:22

My front door can't be opened from outside without a key, but my back door is unlocked all day, unless we all go out. I live in a terrace house, which backs onto a pub, with fencing and bushes and trees at the back. I never thought about locking the door when we are in the house. THOUGH in my old house, we had a downstairs toliet which was at the back of the house, right near the back door, and I did keep that door locked mainly because we had a public path running down the back of the garden, and only had crappy 3 foot fencing with a gate, but I never liked using that loo anyway because it was freezing....

harpsichordcarrier · 30/12/2005 00:28

I never lock my door when I am inside.
I can barely remember to do it when I go out.
I did when I lived in London, but not here.
Am I mad/trusting/stupid?

PantomimEDAMe · 30/12/2005 00:35

This is the sort of story that sends a chill down your spine, isn't it? Even if there is more to it than we've been told, just glad the little girl was found.

I have noticed that you can't hear what's going on upstairs in our (three storey) house from the ground floor. God forbid but if someone did get in I wouldn't necessarily know they were there.

Pixiefish · 30/12/2005 16:29

|link{http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/4569554.stm\update on bbc website}

Pixiefish · 30/12/2005 16:30

update on bbc website duh dufus

Ailsa · 01/01/2006 13:58

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