Gosh how sad - little girl abandoned in Australia

[Twiglett]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7000253.stm

Oh no
How desperate must a parent be to do this?

Poor little pumpkin.

What a strange story though, what reasons could the parents have had? And where is mum??

how sad. hope her mother is ok. sweet little girl.[ok i know most are but still]

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Poor thing.. Hope they find her mum

Poor little girl

Hope her mummy is ok.

Sounds like the father has had something to do with the mother being missing.
thank god he abandoned the little girl and did not harm her
Cruel but at the same time probably in her best interests- although where he left her anyting could have bloody happened.

oh Lord, thats bought a lump to my throat, poor little lamb. and the picture of her father walking - holding her little hand - knowing that he is going to just dump her. [angy] pig of a man. Grrrrrrrrrrrr....!!!

the father's obviously done away with the mother and then dumped the child before running. At least he didn't harm the child physically, I suppose. But how damaging to remove a child from her mother (who knows what she witnessed) and then take her somewhere completely alien to her and just walk away?

Heartless. I hope they find him

well that's the suggestion but there is no actual evidence yet. [generally required to cast guilt]

Oh, that is very sad. Poor little girl.

ruty it's whats coming from NZ I'm afraid
Massive history of violence and domestic abuse.
So fair to at least bandy the theory around

it's pretty obvious imo

i don't know Piffle but just in light of other recent threads...

Oh poor little thing

She must have been distraught.

I wonder if this is because she is a girl.

I doubt she is as "ok" as the report says she is despite eating and sleeping. In my course it says (re "attachment theory") that when a child is separated from his/her mother (or caregiver to whom she has formed an attachement), then hysterical grief eventually gives way to a type of numb acceptance that mum is absen but from which the child/adult never fuller recovers.

And dressed in pumpkin patch by the sound of it. Agree that it is very sad....

IKWYM Ruty but I think the circumstances are different. According to the news story (which doesn't sound hysterical) there's a history of domestic violence AND CCTV footage of the father abandoning the poor kid. Seems unlikely there will be a happy outcome.

not disputing that edam. just some posters grating on me a bit, sorry.

Very sad story.

Sorry - I know I will regret this, but I cannot help but comment on your presence on this thread, Horrible Horace - do you know, 105 of your total 132 posts on Mn have been about your wisdom concerning MM! And now this poor child! Are you a thwarted detective? Should you have your own TV series do you think?

I find it a bit odd that you took the time to search my posts, Blu but errm, anyway.... As far as I know I have not been offensive to anyone.

I only really use the news section, as I can't find too much else to interest me tbh

it isn't very hard to notice what you are interested in HH.

errm, ok... and that bothers you why?

i could say so much....[pointless exercise though]

Because we are welcoming and freindly at MN and notice when people jpin in a wide ranging number of threads. You only particpate in the MM threads in 'news' and are prolific...I knew you would turn up here - you are obsessed, woman! I'm not having a go, honestly...and you haven't offended me, I'm just saying!

Searched your posts because I was justifying my hunch that I knew you would be here!

The poor little girl. Hope her Mam is ok.