LisaB
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It would explain why the four year old doesn't remember anything about playing with her sister on the beach.
The 4-year-old sister of a missing Gloucester tot was interviewed by detectives yesterday as authorities continue to investigate her little sisters disappearance, state police said.
Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news...sume-wed-for-mass-girl-20120423#ixzz1sxZnHA5xAbout two dozen state police divers and a sonar vessel will resume the offshore search Wednesday for a 2-year-old girl missing from a Rockport beach.
It would explain why the four year old doesn't remember anything about playing with her sister on the beach.
Didn't LE say that the 4 y.o. didn't remember anything useful, not that she didn't remember playing with her at all? Seems to me that it would only have taken a few questions for her to say, "My sissy was not at the beach, just my mom and me."
Didn't LE say that the 4 y.o. didn't remember anything useful, not that she didn't remember playing with her at all? Seems to me that it would only have taken a few questions for her to say, "My sissy was not at the beach, just my mom and me."
Ok, but if for some reason I had to walk 50 yards away from my toddlers, I swear I would be walking backwards. I mean, wouldn't you at lease turn your head every other step to make sure they were still in sight? Especially on a beach??
I'm not sure if LE has stated anything the sister said. Just that it wasn't helpful. I would assume that if the sister said it was just her and her mom then they would be putting a lot more effort into a criminal investigation. It seems like they are putting most of their efforts into a ocean search. I took from the scenario of the girls playing in the sand and mom walking to get a ball, that Caleigh got up to follow, and the sister was concentrating on the sandcastle or whatever she was doing....so it wasn't helpful because she didn't see her sister walk away. It seems like a slim chance that someone took the Caleigh, the mom would have been up higher if she was at the top of stairs and would have a clear view of the area and therefore have seen someone walking away with her.
Also one of the articles said that Caleigh's aunt has a house there, so she would be used to the area, and maybe mom is more relaxed around it because they spend a lot of time there. Therefore not being so panicked about the water, and not having a clear respect for what it can do. I don't know...just some thoughts....
This will be the third straight day weather has hampered the search, so it will now be Wednesday when 20 state police divers will be helped by side sonar to detect objects.
Yes... but I wouldn't be leaving two children that young at all to retrieve a ball, especially not that close to the water. Heck, I wouldn't be on the beach with 2 of them in less than 80 degree weather to start with, but I'm not her. Young moms make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes have a tragic ending. Like the little boy down south of me a few weeks ago who went missing and ended up drowning in a pond, because Mom fell asleep and wasn't watching him. She got plenty of blame, IIRC.
It's so easy to see all the mistakes these moms make, but the truth is, it can happen to anybody. Young mothers don't always make the right choices, they just assume that nothing bad will happen. I made split decisions a few times with all 3 of mine, and probably put them in jeapordy, but I was lucky. They're all alive and well, thank God. But some moms and dads are not that lucky, tragedy strikes, no matter how careful they think they have been.
Maybe she just thought it would take a few seconds to get the ball. Maybe she told the 4 yr. old to watch her sister and she got distracted. We don't know, but I cannot sit here behind this computer screen and say that I never made a mistake or that I was always the perfectly attentive mother every minute of every day... because I wasn't. And I doubt that very many here are either.
JMO
Couldn't find any MSM updates. Are they still searching?
Yes... but I wouldn't be leaving two children that young at all to retrieve a ball, especially not that close to the water. Heck, I wouldn't be on the beach with 2 of them in less than 80 degree weather to start with, but I'm not her. Young moms make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes have a tragic ending. Like the little boy down south of me a few weeks ago who went missing and ended up drowning in a pond, because Mom fell asleep and wasn't watching him. She got plenty of blame, IIRC.
It's so easy to see all the mistakes these moms make, but the truth is, it can happen to anybody. Young mothers don't always make the right choices, they just assume that nothing bad will happen. I made split decisions a few times with all 3 of mine, and probably put them in jeapordy, but I was lucky. They're all alive and well, thank God. But some moms and dads are not that lucky, tragedy strikes, no matter how careful they think they have been.
Maybe she just thought it would take a few seconds to get the ball. Maybe she told the 4 yr. old to watch her sister and she got distracted. We don't know, but I cannot sit here behind this computer screen and say that I never made a mistake or that I was always the perfectly attentive mother every minute of every day... because I wasn't. And I doubt that very many here are either.
JMO