Esther on ITV

[donna'sdelights]

my god I cant believe that a child can stand in a shopping center obviously lost and people are just walking past I cant believe we all feel so scared of how it looks yet terrified that no one would help our child if they were lost. its scary!!!

 

[number1kitty]

I would help but I would have a thousand thouts going through my head about what people think! If someone helped my child I would be sooooo grateful and accusing them of kidnap or abuse would not even cross my mind. Unfortunetly for many there out for all they can get.

I have three kids and I pray that if they needed help someone would be there.

I was abused as child and I would never ever dream of accusing someone just because they touch my child. Those that do have never been through what I went through! And my case got thrown out of court this week because I never got my mum to take me to the hospital at 3 and 4 years old to collect DNA!! So this paedo who has had several other complaints against him is back on the streets!

There is no justice for me but also no justice for those poor people who get accused of abuse for looking at a child in the wrong way!

Our children are all going to grow up afraid of the human touch.

xx

 

[donna'sdelights]

I would help but I would have a thousand thouts going through my head about what people think! If someone helped my child I would be sooooo grateful and accusing them of kidnap or abuse would not even cross my mind. Unfortunetly for many there out for all they can get.

I have three kids and I pray that if they needed help someone would be there.

I was abused as child and I would never ever dream of accusing someone just because they touch my child. Those that do have never been through what I went through! And my case got thrown out of court this week because I never got my mum to take me to the hospital at 3 and 4 years old to collect DNA!! So this paedo who has had several other complaints against him is back on the streets!

There is no justice for me but also no justice for those poor people who get accused of abuse for looking at a child in the wrong way!

Our children are all going to grow up afraid of the human touch.

xx

Sorry about your court case hun, I would help to although i do worry that if they arent lost and mum is three steps away she's going to shout at me, I have once before wondered where a childs parent was but because I was scared i have kept them in sight waiting to see if a mum appeared and 30 secs later along she came all fluster and will you hold on to the trolley gggrrr. but at least she was safe.

 

[number1kitty]

Its sad isnt it! I would find it easier with three kids with me to approach another one!

My fella works for the railways and a dad left his baby on the train (he had one too many) and the baby got handed in at the station my fella works at until his dad got on the next train back. All i said to him when I heard this was do not at any moment be left alone with that child. Hand it to the police or make sure a female member of staff is with you too!

Mind you speaking of my fella he helped a man on a train one day in a wheelchair and he said he was really ill. My partner told him he was calling an ambulance to have him checked out and the guy refused. Luckily for him another member of staff saw this because the guy died before he got to the next station. My partner got investigated because his family wanted blood! Luckily on post mortom they said he would have died regardless of intervention or not but it makes you think that everything you do these days needs the other persons signed consent!

xx

 

[1999judy]

I actually would have been one of the people who spoke to the child and went to the place where missing kids go....in fact gone OUT OF MY WAY to do it.
I don't watch much tv but this read James Bulger all over again and it can't happen again through ignorance, but I DO see the other side of it.....a guy going over could be misconstrued in many ways.
This is the world we live in I guess but misconstrued or not I would have been with the kid, I wouldn't be able to help myself tbh.
I guess that's just the type of person I am.

 

[donna'sdelights]

it is like we need a back up person for everything we do isnt it. I would find it alot easier with my daughter in toe mind you she would probably beat me to it she is 7 and any child smaller than her makes her feel she needs to pet them and be protective, its very cute until you get an incident like at a ballet class last yr a girl as there with a growth problem she was the same ages a terri and terri couldnt understand it and it came across so patronising with out her meaning it too bless her.lol

 

[1999judy]

Hmm ok I'm trying not to make a deal out of it but the problem is the world we live in.
EVERYONE is a criminal and that makes EVERYONE be extra careful.
For themselves and the family. The first sight of a man going to a little girl can always be seen 2 ways and I guess that makes the best natured loving man in the world be worried.
I understand that.
BUT I would HAVE to go because it's in my nature.
I couldn't stand a child to be left all alone for one minute.
But I do see both sides of this tbh. x

 

[Lellipop]

I would have helped without a doubt and I do think its much easier for a woman to do this, What the programme did highlight is what a sad world we now live in.