I haven't seen this mentioned, so sorry if I just missed it.
I wonder if the teenaged girl who was said to have dropped her off might be the "woman" that took her in the first place. It seems strange to me that there was no mention of her before that - just a young woman brought her there, and there was a guy there. MOO
Although I do not have the story, I read the abductor signed out the child and was told to wait for the child, but the abductor went directly to the classroom where there was a substitute teacher who was not aware that the child should not have been released.
I've seen the men that were perfectly capable of speaking and even singing in a feminine voice. So I'd say as long as the person in question isn't found and identified, we cannot be sure it's a female.
Ummm... Nothing would happen? As far a I remember it was in the rules that the school should demand ID from a person trying to check the kid out. And I cannot imagine any parents and grandparents, happy with the fact that the school of their kids and grandkids is ready to release the children into the hands of anyone who comes, without checking who this person is.
Stories now say the child was signed out, but the signature was not legible.
"There's a list of people who can pick a child up. She did sign a name but it's not legible so we are not quite sure who the person is."
http://gma.yahoo.com/girl-abducted-school-found-081137201--abc-news-topstories.html
Are we sure the 'illegible' writing wasn't Arabic?
It would be what they did in practice, and not what the rules say, that would be at issue. Do they ID every parent that walks in the door, even after seeing them countless times? I bet they don't. In most cases, it works out because when someone you know enters a room, you know who they are. When identity is concealed, it becomes a little harder. Yet, it probably wouldn't go over well if they only ID'd the Muslim lady over and over again.
I don't know the demographics of that area, and I don't think we know the details of how things went down in the school at the time, but especially if full Muslim garb is unusual there, I can see how this could have flown under the radar of school employees who have seen the mother many times and know she distinctively dresses that way. I can also see how they'd be reluctant to ask for ID given our cultural climate.
It would be what they did in practice, and not what the rules say, that would be at issue. Do they ID every parent that walks in the door, even after seeing them countless times? I bet they don't. In most cases, it works out because when someone you know enters a room, you know who they are. When identity is concealed, it becomes a little harder. Yet, it probably wouldn't go over well if they only ID'd the Muslim lady over and over again.
I don't know the demographics of that area, and I don't think we know the details of how things went down in the school at the time, but especially if full Muslim garb is unusual there, I can see how this could have flown under the radar of school employees who have seen the mother many times and know she distinctively dresses that way. I can also see how they'd be reluctant to ask for ID given our cultural climate.
Are we sure the 'illegible' writing wasn't Arabic?
Seems there is some confusion. I am reading that Nailla walked with the woman to a house a few blocks away blindfolded - and also that she was driven there.
Also reading she escaped from her captors and also that a teen female took her to the park.
Misreporting or something not adding up?
ETA: "Nailla told police that she was blindfolded and walked several blocks to a house, according to ABC News. Later, a teenage girl took her to the park."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/nailla-robinson-missing-philadelphia_n_2478955.html
ETA2: Now I can't find this in articles anymore - just on the google search page - "Nailla Robinson, Girl Abducted From Philadelphia Classroom ...
Huffington Post-3 hours ago
The tape shows her getting into a car, later determined to belong to ..... Nailla Robinson, Philadelphia girl, taken from school found outside city ..."
If there was no car, then the person lives very close to school. Why would someone do all these things? Kidnap a child only to let them go into a park a short time later? This is all very bizarre.