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Well yes, this is the thing. If I were doing this, or simply burgling the property or something, I can see how I might use the patio door to get in. But the obvious risk is the bit where you come back out again carrying the TV set, or a child, or whatever. You then walk all the way round the flat to your vehicle at the front, having somehow shut the patio door behind you while your arms were full. That stage is when you're at most risk of being seen and challenged - or simply remembered.Just accept there is no crime scene photos of an open window .Why use the window when there was a perfectly serviceable and unlocked patio door.
Instead, the logical way to do this that minimises the risk of being caught is to use the apartment itself to screen you from observation. So you enter the flat via the patio door, because you need a way in and you're watching it anyway. You'll enter as soon as possible after the check visit, as this gives you as much time as possible till the next visit in which to get away. You go to the front, you open the street door, you take the child, you let yourself out, put her in your car parked right there, close the street door and you drive off. The opportunity for you to be sighted is minimal, and even if you are, what you're seen doing is forgettably unremarkable.
The only reason I'd use a window would be to pass the TV set, child etc through it to my accomplice parked right outside. But I've still then got to do that patio door walk, in which I could then be seen.
What I do not see, in what is supposed to have happened, is any account that ties the facts at the scene together with any plausible way of removing a child. If MM was taken out through a patio door someone had nerves of steel, and I don't understand in that case why KM insisted she immediately sensed the window was open.