I think this may be the first time we’ve had it confirmed that Nora’s feet were not injured that I can recall. We’ve wondered about that. So could that mean that Nora was carried away? Could she have been kept somewhere and not fed until “she had succumbed to intestinal bleeding from starvation and stress after spending a week in the rainforest” as the autopsy stated. Technically, that would not be foul play, but more of a passive murder...being allowed to die “naturally” from starvation. If her feet were not injured, she didn’t get to the stream where her body was found and lie down to die on her own.
If this is how it happened, and it wasn’t a kidnapping for ransom, who could have taken her (without raising an alarm) and for what purpose? They hadn’t been there long enough for anyone to befriend her and gain her trust. She wasn’t a tiny child left alone like Madeleine McCann. I think there is a lot of information we don’t have. I hope it comes out at the inquest.
@Satchie as I finished writing this post I saw yours which makes some very good points. I really wish the inquest would include testimony from people in London (besides her parents) who are aware of Nora’s abilities and limitations...teachers, doctors, physical therapists, etc. That way we’d know if she was capable of walking that far carefully, so her feet wouldn’t get cut up. Would she even have the ability to climb out the window, as LE seems to suggest?
As an aside, I will say that I don’t like the fact that her parents are suing the resort. There should have been no expectation of a secure environment, so it’s not a good look IMO.
OK - this is slightly off topic but I want to share with you a scenario which deals with questions around capabilities and how sometimes, children of whatever age, are more inclined and capable to do things than parents give them credit for..
I am 50 years old and a twin. When I was a young child -2 years old to be exact, medicine bottles did not have the security caps on them that we see these days .
So, my twin sister and I decided to have a party with smarties and milk, only the smarties were foul tasting tablets .
Because we ‘egged’ each other on, no matter what we did, having seen our parents get these so called ‘ smarties ‘ out of the cupboard which was very high up top and almost impossible for either of us to reach, it became a challenge . So we managed to drag a chair from the dining table and put it against the lower kitchen cupboards. We then climbed onto the kitchen worktop and tried to reach for the handle of the cupboard containing the smarties. We couldn’t reach so my sister got a kitchen ladle And passed it to me and then I was able to not only get the upper cupboard door open but I was also able to use the ladle to scoop items out of this cupboard, these items being our ‘smarties’ in pretty glass colour bottles.
Having these in our possession, we then got our ‘sippy’ cups and filled them with milk. Now we were ready for our party .
My mum apparently woke up in bed with a startled OMG. As she scrambled out my Dad asked what the problem was that made her jump out of bed in the middle of the night. My mums just shouted ‘the twins’ and ran to our bedroom sensing that we were in trouble. Not finding us in our beds, she then ran down stairs only to find us in the kitchen , surrounded by milk and our ‘smarties’... Que the ambulance being called and us both being rushed to the old infirmary to have our stomachs pumped . To this day I have vague memories of an unhappy nurse , dressed all in white with a white square hat and her giving me what I have come to since find out was charcoal. Suffice to say that it was 48 years ago and things are very different now but essentially we had observed our parents taking their medication and not knowing what it was, we presumed it was smarties ( candy ) and decided to eat it and drink our milk . Fortunately , mothers instinct kicked in, even from a deep sleep, and no lasting harm was done . But my point is this - if we polled people as to the likelihood of us being capable of doing such a thing, I bet the results would be an astounding’NO WAY WOULD A 2 YEAR OLD BE CAPABLE OF TAKING AN OVERDOSE “.... But we did.
Although this is something entirely different altogether, the fact still remains that when faced with something which seems like fun or exciting or interesting or a challenge , it’s amazing how able bodied children are and can accomplish what they set their mind to, even if parents believe otherwise and in the case of Nora, I suspect that because of the time difference so not sleepy and the exotic location and the wonderful smells and talk of waterfalls, she quite possibly decided to go and explore , not realising the implications of such and the dangers appertaining to her as a mobility restricted child but she continued on nether the less ...
My situation was talked about time and time again and people were stupefied that we were able to achieve such a feat .... but we did and children can be far more capable than we give credit for!
All MOO
