That depends: if you asked that question in the days immediately following the disappearance, the answer is “a couple dozen basketball players on the court” plus at least 1, maybe 2, men (the abductor and a “witness” who saw him). Months later on the Dr P show, the number was amended to “4 little girls on the b-ball court” I believe.
By now I’m guessing she would have surfaced had a body of water in the park/near the park been fallen into. I still think she may have wandered off or ran too far and she could be in the woods nearby. My other thought (not a popular one but still my thought) is that maybe they never went as far as reported into the park to begin with. Maybe the kids wanted to saunter along from the park entrance/further away from the playground with their ice cream. Or maybe it was dripping all over in the backseat. Maybe they were let out of the car, Noema continued to park and then noticed only 1 child was at the play area after a time. That could mean she’s further back in the park than the woods surrounding the play area. Of course, it’s possible that some predator was hanging around the park as school was letting out, just hoping he’d see a child to grab. Of course the timing could be so precise that the car pulled in, the kids got out and walked 90 feet away, positioned themselves exactly behind a teeny hill, and before a lottery ticket could be scratched off, that predator swooped in and grabbed Dulce and exited with 4/24 kids seeing nothing. My opinion is the time is probably off by at least some. We know exactly when the family went to the store because there is video. We do not know exactly how fast they arrived at the park from there. We do not know if the kids were unsupervised for 3 minutes or 20 minutes. We do not know if the brother of Noema and the dog walked or drove to help search before 911 was called. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of discrepancies here IMO. The story and details HAVE changed over the past 12 months. Whether the story changed from Noema or whether the media changed it, different stories and different versions have been reported. As a very young mother myself once upon a time, some of it frankly sounds like hooey. Maybe that’s from dishonesty and maybe it’s just someone trying to avoid “getting in trouble”. 2+2 do not equal 4 for me here. My opinion.
