Shannon Matthews Found!!

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Some good news at last!!

emergency protection order

That link I put was for abused women, but the same principle applies. She will be protected.

I wonder if her mother will be allowed contact with her.

according to news they have been reunited, mother with her, but she's not allowed home yet

it did sound odd on the news that they had found her at 12.30 and on the news at 4 she had not been reunited with her mum.

I don't know what an emergency child protection order constitutes exactly, but it's sad that she won't be going home. I imagine she is considered at risk from somebody, but we can't know whom or in what context, so best not to speculate.
Just such a relief that she has been found

Poor kid and her family.

This is an explanation of the term.

I would imagine we will not be told more by the media, because this kind of thing will be in place to protect the child from intrusive attention and her privacy must be respected obviously.

I will keep her in my prayers whatever. I hope we can leave it now and hope she is being cared for appropriately.

whatever it takes to keep Shannon safe. I agree speculation is distasteful re the EPPO.

Just read in one newspaper Shannon's step dad might have been physically abusive. Hasn't Shannon's Mum got 7 other kids? It's just, if there was any sign of abuse in the house, surely the other kids would have said something?

Very glad she was found alive.

not necessarily strange that she wasn't reunited with her mother for several hours. I would imagine that she would have had to undergo a medical examination, plus would have had to be interviewed before being reunited with any family, to ensure that her statement to the police could not be influenced in any way, ie in case she has run away and there are issues in the family that have contributed to this etc.

Glad she is safe, this whole thing has been odd from the start though.

really pleased, you always dread the news when this sort of thing is going on

so please she is alive. I certainly didn't hold out too much hope - glad to be proved wrong though.

im so glad she found alive. thought there were nothing happening but obviously police were working hard.

Thank God for that.

reunited with family

Check this out:

"A 39-year-old man, named locally as Paul Drake, an uncle of Shannon's stepfather Craig Meehan, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of abduction."

F-ing hell

I thought the champagne in the street at 4pm was a bit premature and ostentatious really. We didn't know the whole story, and we still don't.

Don't know what to make of this story .

I imagine we haven't heard the last of this family.

although is it really helpful to name the suspect before he's even been charged with anything? after all, for all we know Shannon might have run away to him and now he's been tarred with the brush of abductor.

I expect the champagne was provided by Sky News

HHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

But Wannabe, even if she did run away to him in the first place, he has been hiding a nine-year-old child away for three weeks while knowing that the entire country was looking for her - how is that not a crime?

and if that's the case he will be charged with perverting the course of justice. But there's a difference between that and abduction which carries all sorts of other connotations.

Not saying he shouldn't have been arrested btw. but naming him and his link to the family is just a bit ... . how long before accusations start being thrown at the stepfather again, even if he wasn't actually guilty in all this. people will assume that tecause Shannon was with a relative of his, he is involved.

Tis very odd though