OMG. Anybody just seen GMTV? 3 yr old girl abducted on holiday on the Algarve.

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kate said reports just in, cant find anything on bbc.

bloody awful.

Personally I'd never leave them alone. Really feel for the family and poor child

The poor family. We have left DS1 in his room before and gone for a drink.....have always had a monitor though. I hope to God she has just wandered off.....

please don't let's turn this into another of those threads on whether to leave dc alone or not, like it's somehow the dp's fault if some lunatic is at work here. I would hate the family to come on here and read that.

Very strange . I hope they find the little girl quickly and get to the bottom of it .

I agree with Sssandy, if this is a snatch there's only one evil bod involved- snatcher.

I can't imagine what that poor family must be ging through, its everyones worst nightmare . Horrific.

Some people would, some people wouldn't - their family, their choice.
I bet this family are beating themselves up about this and the what if's. Truely awful

From SkyNEWS

sky news story

this had made me feel sick.

We nearly booked there last year and may well have done the same althgouh less leily now kdis are odler and would eat with us at that time of night. iirc MW operate within a public complex so it isn't exclusive to them unlike my understanding of many of their other clubs. Awful for the family.

There has to be more to this story - it just doesn't make sense to me.

why not callisto?

by the way, can I slip in - I didn't mean anyone who had posted already was trying to blame the parents at all... Sorry if it came across that way. Not intended

oh how awful for the parents. it does say the hotel listen in to the rooms - we have lefft the boys before like this with the hotel using baby listening. dont think ill be doing it again.

herts, the sky article says the hotel offers that monitoring service but I wasn't sure if the family were using it. I presume they were though.

I'm with Callisto at the moment - something just doesn't make sense - what leads them to think she was abducted, how many other children were sleeping in the apartment? Surely one of them woke up and must have heard/seen something.

It just seems odd - but at the same time (so please don't get my above paragraph the wrong way) terribly sad - hopefully she'll turn up ok.

I don't know how it works at this hotel but other MW hotels have nannies on each floor and every 15 minutes they check for them crying, they do not enter the rooms. If this poor little girl was abducted from her room by someone breaking into it from the outside then he/she surely must have knowledge of the hotel. What a horrendous situation for the family, it doesn't bare thinking about. We have done lots of MW holidays and have left the dc on child listening, the nannies have always been wonderful and if there was ever a problem they would find you straight away. I pray that she is found safe and well.

They said on GMTV the shutters were broken. So that leads them to assume she has been abducted and not simply wandered off. We don't know how old the other kids are, perhaps they are just babies and therefore even if they did wake are unable to tell what they saw?

Maybe other things have been taken from the room - belongings of the little girl. These things would all point to an abduction.

I hope to god she is found safe and well very soon.

I really hope that she can be found quickly and safely.
Can't even begin to imagine how her parents are feeling.

It just doesn't bear thinking about. Hope to god the little girl is okay.

Well, it doesn't make sense that this girl was taken seemingly at random; that she was taken from her room (surely there are easier ways to abduct a child); that no-one heard anything; if it was an 'inside job' why were the shutters broken etc etc.

If it was an opportunistic abduction it is a very strange way of doing it so maybe there is a reason she was taken that isn't the sinister awful one we are all thinking.

On the bbc it says that ?police are investigating whether a 3 year old girl may have been abducted? which to me would indicate that there is possibly more to this than is being reported. Tbh I would be more inclined to read/believe what is written on the bbc than ITV/sky as the latter don?t always report from official sources and there reporting can be somewhat sensationalist at times.

Also, even if the apartment had been broken into the little girl may have been scared and run off to try and find her parents and got lost or, heaven forbid, fallen into a swimming pool.

I agree with callisto something about this doesn?t add up.

Personally can?t understand why any parent would leave a child in a hotel and go a few hundred meters to a restaurant, to me that would be the same as leaving the kids at home and going out to the local pub, most wouldn?t do that so why is a hotel different?

watrch ITV1 now

will prob be talking about it

You may be more comfortable with it if you can see the room from where you're sitting, although that doesn't seem to have made any difference in this case. if we did it we'd make sure we were close enough to use a monitor.