A] She and her siblings were sitting as they were directed by their mother so she knew where they were.
B] That was 40 or 50 years ago and times were different. Children weren't being abducted, molested, and murdered as they are now.
You are letting your emotions get the best of you.
Really kids did not get kidnapped in the 50's?
"In September 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was kidnapped from an exclusive Kansas City prep school and brutally murdered across the state line in Johnson County, Kansas. The kidnappers were Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Emily Brown Heady, two drug addicted alcoholics cohabiting in St. Joseph, Missouri."
I suppose objects did not fall, fires did not start, and no harm could possible come....