Child missing in Edinburgh

humanji · 17-01-2014 10:57PM

kneemos wrote: »

It's a valid view.

It's a view that is unnecessary to share on the thread and is just dragging the thread off topic in a needless argument. Now please, keep to the topic

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:02PM

Apparently the child had been ill. What i dont understand there is why the mother wasn't checking on him through the night.

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:06PM

You would have to think that this is very unlikely to be a stranger abduction (and those are very rare) as a stranger abducting a child is not going to stop to get his coat & shoes (or even know where to find them) If the child left with his coat & shoes it sounds like someone who cared for the child took him outside. Or someone moved the clothes for some other reason.

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:09PM

JillyQ wrote: »

Apparently the child had been ill. What i dont understand there is why the mother wasn't checking on him through the night.

Can understand this to be fair to the mother, Ive had days when my kids are sick where I have been absolutely exhausted by the end of the day & gone straight to bed same time as the kids & slept through. Now not if it was something serious but for things like colds (which is apparently what he had) I do think though its odd that he hasn't been at nursery for so long. I suppose the police will be trying to get a last confirmed sighting of him from someone outside the family

sawdoubters · 17-01-2014 11:12PM

how can a 3 year old open a front door

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:17PM

This is starting to sound awfully like another high profile missing child case.

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:18PM

JillyQ wrote: »

This is starting to sound awfully like another high profile missing child case.

Which one?

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:21PM

Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »

Which one?

Madeline McCann

BorneTobyWilde · 17-01-2014 11:22PM

Can i GUESS. The one where it was all a set up.

Merkin · 17-01-2014 11:23PM

When was the last official sighting of the child does anyone know?

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:23PM

I really hope this has a better outcome than that

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:24PM

Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »

I really hope this has a better outcome than that

So do I.

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:25PM

Merkin wrote: »

When was the last official sighting of the child does anyone know?

They keep saying Wednesday night when put to bed by the mother. But surely they would have to be looking for an independent sighting by someone outside the family. I'm sure that would be standard procedure. So far the only sighting outside the family seems to be at the nursery before Christmas

Merkin · 17-01-2014 11:26PM

Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »

They keep saying Wednesday night when put to bed by the mother. But surely they would have to be looking for an independent sighting by someone outside the family. I'm sure that would be standard procedure. So far the only sighting outside the family seems to be at the nursery before Christmas

That's what I thought. Seems like it's not conclusive exactly how long he's been missing for.

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:27PM

Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »

They keep saying Wednesday night when put to bed by the mother. But surely they would have to be looking for an independent sighting by someone outside the family. I'm sure that would be standard procedure. So far the only sighting outside the family seems to be at the nursery before Christmas

There has to be CCTV footage of him at some stage since then

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:29PM

I actually really feel for all the people out there searching in bad weather IF it comes out that he has been missing for a while or that someone knows something & hasn't said

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:30PM

JillyQ wrote: »

There has to be CCTV footage of him at some stage since then

True, CCTV is everywhere these days. Unless he has been indoors since Christmas he has to be on CCTV somewhere

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:34PM

Rebecca Small Violin wrote: »

True, CCTV is everywhere these days. Unless he has been indoors since Christmas he has to be on CCTV somewhere

It certainly is, as you said unless he has been indoors since christmas, but surely some people other than the family would have been in the house in the near 3 weeks since christmas.

Merkin · 17-01-2014 11:43PM

More on it here. Apparently the father of the twins never actually met them.

http://m.iol.co.za/article/view/s/81/a/526957

JillyQ · 17-01-2014 11:52PM

Merkin wrote: »

More on it here. Apparently the father of the twins never actually met them.

http://m.iol.co.za/article/view/s/81/a/526957

The end of that article is very strange

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:53PM

I really hope that's not true that there was a history of them being left alone at home, if that was common knowledge in the area & that info got into the wrong hands...

The Black Oil · 17-01-2014 11:54PM

It's all a bit odd. Hard to see a positive outcome at this point.

Pumpkinseeds · 17-01-2014 11:57PM

I really hope the child is found safe and sound but it does seem a very odd story. I really can't imagine that a 3 year old child who decides to leave the flat during the night is going to put on his coat and shoes. Now the news reported that the child hasn't been back to school since Christmas.

I don't know what the weather is like over there but surely sniffer dogs would have picked up the child's scent if he'd just wandered off.

When I was about 4 or 5, my mum collapsed in the bathroom and hit her back off the old fashioned bath. She couldn't get up and she sent me to get help from my grandmother who lived nearby. When I tried to get out the back door I couldn't as my parents never left the key in the lock in case we wandered out. So I had to carry a kitchen chair to the front door in order to reach the door latch. It just seems odd that a child could dress himself and wander off unheard

wdmfapq4zs83hv · 17-01-2014 11:57PM

I suppose the best outcome would be if he had been taken by a family member, at least then he would be being looked after. Have to say having my kids go missing is my absolute nightmare, all my friends think I'm rediculously over protective but when things like this happen it just terrifies me

anncoates · 18-01-2014 12:01AM

Holsten wrote: »

Cold but who cares? I mean really?

How many children have been killed worldwide since this one has gone missing?!

This is the usual fuckwitted comment that's rolled out as a short cut to an intellectual position.

It's exact equivalent in political threads is that it's impossible to disagree with regimes in places like North Korea because of Merica.

Sir Arthur Daley · 18-01-2014 12:02AM

Hope child will be found but the whole story is not adding up at all, you get the feeling someone is telling lies.

JillyQ · 18-01-2014 12:02AM

Watched a bit on Sky News earlier, I have a feeling the police are holding back on infomation that they may have.

I dont have kids but look after my niece and nephews regularly and some of my friends kids, i wont let them out of my sight for minute. They say i am overproctive, but i couldnt live with myself if anything happened to them.

Micky Dolenz · 18-01-2014 12:06AM

The whole thing stinks.

3 year old kids lack the know how to do a runner. He gets up, dresses and puts on shoes before opening a few doors and off. No chance.

It's a very sad story. Poor lad.

HazDanz · 18-01-2014 12:11AM

Living in Edinburgh myself and the weather isn't good at the minute. Cold and rainy.

It's not looking good for the lad but credit to the local community, they've really come together to try mend this situation and help out where needed.

JillyQ · 18-01-2014 12:12AM

HazDanz wrote: »

Living in Edinburgh myself and the weather isn't good at the minute. Cold and rainy.

It's not looking good for the lad but credit to the local community, they've really come together to try mend this situation and help out where needed.

I hope they find him

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