PrimeSuspect
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Here is the context for the 'lil devil' comment:
When he fell quiet and the foster mother could not find him she told her mother, “I can’t see William” and her mother replied, “Oh, the little devil”.
She worried because “William is only quiet usually when he is sick … if he was distressed … he will cry, scream out” and “William doesn’t stray”.
My 92 year old mother says 'lil devil' in an endearing way, when speaking about her 5 yr old great grand son. She said that verbatim when he tried to sneak some extra cookie from the counter BEFORE we ate dinner... She laughed and said to my SIL, " He didnt know I saw that, the lil Devil.'
I really don't think my mother meant anything derogatory by saying that---it is an old saying about young children, used often as a descriptive way of saying they are impulsive...
Here is the 2nd statement:
At the end of day one, the foster mother came off the stand and was embraced by the foster father in court, but continued her testimony into day two.
She told the court Nanna had thought William too “hyperactive, boisterous” in his play immediately before he vanished.
When the foster father returned from nearby Lakewood and the Kendall shops, and was told about William, he “bolted … running for William and I didn’t see him for ages after that”.
Is that really speaking negatively about the child? The FGM was about 80 years old? Don't most 80 yr olds describe 3 yr old boys as seeming to be boisterous and hyper? My grandmother thought my son was when he was 3. I remember going to a County Fair with her and my 3 yr old and she kept wanting him to sit down with us and was nervous about seeing him running about and wanting to touch everything....I don't think that is unusual behaviour for the 3 yr old OR the 80 yr old. JMO
CS's parents were heavily criticised by the public because one or both described her as lazy, there were many loving things said in their descriptions of CS, but when the public is focused with hate and disgust, they choose the word they most likely have said many times themselves, but give it a sinister meaning when a child is missing. jmo