Posted on 06/13/2005 2:01:55 AM PDT by bd476
I'm wondering if she was taken away into 'white sex slavery' or something weird like that.
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Kids who go on class trips should stay with their class and not go off with three boys for flirtations. My guess is she slipped away from the chaperones who didnt pay enough attention. This happens on a lot of class trips and now the chaperones have a guilt trip laid on them for the rest of their lives.
If the girl had behaved responsibly they wouldnt be looking for her now. I guess thats beside the point , but it still remains a factor in her dissappearance.
True.
It is also true that hindsight is 20/20.
The mother is sadly right. I personally believe that Natalee ran into Aruba's version of Robert Chambers.
Hopefully they will find her soon.
It doesnt take hindsight to know that kids will screw up on class trips if they arent watched religiously. They have been doing it for years and will continue to do it. Most girls dont slip off with three boys usually one is enough.
What you are saying is true.
However until the truth or a complete story is revealed, I am unwilling to lay blame at her feet, or assume anything about what happened.
Let us hold hope that that is not the case.
I agree. I certainly do hope that that is not the case.
(Lord knows, I've been wrong before.)
After talking to my wife, sister, and some girl friends, they are all of the opinion that her BEST FRIENDS should be raked over the coals for this disappearance too, and I agree with them. What kind of friend(s) lets you go off on some strange island with three guys she just met by herself? I mean, if Natalee was drinking, a "friend" is someone who keeps an eye out for you, and says "that might not be a good idea for you to leave with them".
...and on the drinking thing, I was married in Aruba last October, and we had a crew of people go to Carlos n Charlies one night, and EVERYONE in the place is drinking. Natalees mother is living in a dream world if she didn't think her daughter wasn't drinking that night.
I don't see how seven chaperones can reasonably hope to keep tabs on 124 teenagers. That is almost 1 to 20. I have not heard anything about how the trip was organized, what sort of guidelines, if any, were given to the children. Were there any behaviors that would result in being sent home? Was there even a system for sending a child home who violate any rules, if they existed. Had such a trip been done in the past? Had more reasonable alternatives, like Disney World or Panama City, Florida, been considered? Were they given any guidelines about hanging out at bars until the wee hours of the morning and picking up locals? What sort of activities were the other children in the group doing? Were there organized activities or were they all just on their own?
Natalee was 18. That is an adult. You cannot blame the chaperones for the actions of an adult.
A lot of these "children" were 18, like Natalee.
From the start I've thought that she may not have had a lot of close friends, or at least none on this trip. All of the comments I've seen thus far seem to have come from acquaintances. Good friends would've been looking out for her and wouldn't have let her go off on her own like this. It seemed odd from the beginning that nobody noticed that she was missing until she failed to show up for the plane.
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