Jules71
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When does school start in that area?
Sept 3rd.
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When does school start in that area?
Can anyone offer suggestions as to why it would take the police 39 minutes to respond to a missing 6 year-old 911 call?
Check comments on KIRO new facebook page.
Maybe because a child made it and they didn't take it as seriously as if an adult had? **speculative**
I read upstream that a ' neighbor' also called 911 . Is that true? Link , please if anyone has it. TIA
News reports say the parents willingly took polygraphs- and they allowed the home to be searched without a warrant. .
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I wonder how the father made out on the polygraph. So far, there are three stories of when the parents first started looking for the child: one story was that they first started looking when she was not home for dinner at 8:30pm; another said noon; and the third story was in the news clip, when the father was shown the poster and questioned about waiting 24 hrs to report her missing, he said "that's how long we've been looking for her".
Did you have that kind of freedom at 6 years old? I keep coming back to her age -- 6 years old! I cannot imagine.Presuming the parents innocent, the scenario could be:
Noon: Where's J? Hey, Big Sister, go look for her.
Then the family proceeds with their day, not particularly worried but noticing she's gone.
Dinnertime: You never found her? We'd better look around ourselves.
Walk around the neighborhood, asking neighbors if they've seen her. They still think she's wandered off but not necessarily in danger. As the sun starts to set with no idea where J is, but in denial that something bad happened, they decide authorities should be called.
WHY a child placed that call baffles me, and the only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that they STILL assumed the child would show up after a day of fun romping around. But, they called LE "just in case" J really was abducted or injured somewhere.
I just have a feeling, based on the father, that they really expected her to show up at any minute and he sort of thought calling 911 was unnecessarily panicky. (I don't agree with him, but that's the vibe I get from him. He is not a "helicopter parent.")
I'm on the fence about them, though leaning toward thinking they were neglectful but not involved with harming their child. I reserve the right to change my mind.
FWIW, I also had a childhood (1970s) where we were free to roam around all day and didn't check in until we were hungry. We did however, all run home when the 9pm whistle in our town blew. That was everyone's curfew. It was a childhood spent mostly outdoors, in all kinds of weather. Looking back, I have great memories of that freedom, but am also sort of amazed at it. Child-rearing norms have changed a lot since then. I didn't give my own children the same freedom my parents gave me.