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Posted on 06/24/2005 9:11:00 PM PDT by TheWriterTX
I know this type of nightmare! My kids disappeared while I was at school/work one day. Their dad packed them up and ran off. No note, no calls, nothing to let me know they were ok.
Took me 3 weeks to find them. The most horrifying 3 weeks of my life!
Did you miss the part where she said she thought the neighbors weren't home.
When a small child is missing time is of the essence, especially in todays world. If the child is found safe next door, it sure isn't going to upset the police that they were called. Better than the case in New Jersey where it took four hours to notify the police that those three boys were missing.
Well, I think she already confessed she was a helpless mess of goo, or something along those lines. I usually have to be the voice of reason with my wife in these circumstances, but I'm freaking on the inside too.
It is funny now but 30 years ago we were at Myrtle Beach. There were thousands of people and my nephew went missing. I still remember my poor SIL running in frantic circles, wanting to run find him, afraid to leave. The lifeguards assured us that they would have seen him if he was drowning. As is my usual MO, my answer was to escape, I couldn't stand the fear and the tension. I just grabbed my son and took off because I was so upset and started looking and ended up walking 1/2 a mile asking everyone on the beach if they had seen him when I looked up and saw him on a fountain. An older couple had found him and taken him to a central place and put him up there so he could be seen. I gave the couple profuse thanks but I wish I had been able to talk to them after things had settled down and let them know how thankful we were. I made the boys run all the way back to where the rest of the family was and I'll never forget my SIL falling to the ground and giving way to the tears she had been holding back.
When a small child is missing time is of the essence, especially in todays world.
I'd at least check every house in the street before I called in the cops.
This response was hysterical.
Oh please.
Your children have NEVER been out of your sight for five minutes?
BTW...most child abuse goes on within families. So unless you can trust your wife 100%, your child minder 100%, and your family 100%, you'd probably better stay awake 24/7 for the next 18 years.
I'm a helpless mess of goo when my car doesn't start and I'm late for an appointment. I don't call the fire brigade for a jump-start.
You do it your way, I'll do it mine! I called the police about 20 minutes after I found my kids missing. Of course it took me that long to figure out that my daughters new school clothes were gone!
There are 7 registered sex offenders within walking distance of my house. If I had known that when my kids disappeared...I would have called within seconds of finding them gone!
Are you two playing tag team tonight or something? Why don't you just run along to a thread where you have some real intellectual input. Just because you can't relate to the article, and missed the point, that doesn't give you the right to beat up on other FReepers.
She's almost four now and teaching her little sister the ropes.
Sorry? Tag team? I really don't know what you mean?
Are you mixing me up with someone else?
Do you always call the moderator when you disagree with somebody?
The Rescue and Police teams have NO EXCUSE for failing to search that vehicle. That father should have never been put in that position.
End of story.
Finally you get it. In five minutes someone may spot a stranger carrying the child. In four hours, someone may find the child dead in a ditch. BIG difference.
BTW..this article is TWO years old.
And, secondly I think that calling the police to a matter (after five minutes) is a waste of their already limited resources.
Kids with devilish personality at a young age, turn into winsome charmers. I suggest you may need to cops on standby when she turns 18...for your own sanity! :-) (I say that with the best wishes and will in the world, but I'm sure you know that *S*)
I would rather waste the officers time and resources, than find my child dead because I hesitated when it was a matter of life and death.
I would rather, then, that Momma didn't think that finding her cigarettes was more important than keeping a watchful eye on her child.
But this isn't a perfect world.
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