By your amazing logic, kids shouldn’t be allowed to play in the backyard unsupervised because they might be kidnapped.
Not exactly the same...but I would say, below a certain age, kids should not be unsupervised. Note that the article begins, "When Rebecka Brown returned home June 5..."
This isn't like a situation where mom is in the kitchen or the house and the kids are outside. The lady was nowhere around. Second, when kids are playing they're generally not tied up. Being tethered in an unsecured yard places a dog in a particularly vulnerable position, whether it's to the taunts of (unsupervised) neighborhood kids, thugs or taser wielding cops.
That has happened. Polly Klass, that Jaygard girl.