Not again..four year old left alone..

Question

a four year old girl , was left alone.. at an Israeli airport.. whilst her parents rushed to catch a flight to Paris..

how the h**l can anyone forget a child is with them,,..

Answer 1

speechless!!

Answer 2

how can any one forget there child.are they saying the flight was more important.than there child.this thing seems to be happening all the time right across the world.people can not be that busy that they can forget there children.  

Answer 3

Some people just shouldn't be parents.

Sad thing is,is that  they are. Disgraceful and no excuse.

Answer 4

poor kid

Answer 5

The McCann's gospel on childcare is spreading except they have not learned how to buy the press for 12 months.

Shouldn't be allowed to have children!!!

Answer 6

In this day and age you would think parents would think of the danger & not let their child out of their sight.  I cant believe they forgot their own child.

Answer 7

How could anyone forget one of their children? Easy, they're human beings. They were tired, rushed, and had four other kids. Unless there is some other indication of their being neglectful parents this is just something that could happen to anyone. Imagine what they went through when they were on the plane and realized they had left one of their kids behind. Give em a break, aren't their enough parents out there who deliberately neglect and abuse their kids to worry about?

Answer 8

Yeah i have seen this, how is it possible to do this are these people drunk.....come to think of it, even then it would be pretty hard to do it.

I'm honestly lost for words, i just wonder whether the pro McCanns find this acceptable parenting :)

Answer 9

I thought the McCanns were holidaying in Canada???

Answer 10

Hello Poppyday- one lesson there to be learnt is never to assume-my heart would drop!!!

Answer 11

Seems odd that there is nothing on the news or in the press. Anyone have a link ?

Answer 12

Their name wasn't Mc Cann by any chance.

Answer 13

I think I'm the other way and probably irritate the h**l out of my kids by not giving them an inch to move if we are anywhere strange!

I heard my husband sending me up to my two whilst at a train station recently, he hadn't realised I'd returned from the Kiosk but he was saying ' Don't move an inch kids cos your mum will kill you which will be worse than getting splattered by a train.'

Sooner that over-anxiety than the repercussions of neglect though.

Answer 14

Have you seen a picture of the kid? Maybe if you did you would understand why. I don't think it was an accident.

Answer 15

This is a joke right? If not, the parents should be jailed!

Answer 16

I'll admit, I'm stranger than most, so maybe I'm alone on this one, but I haven't ever forgotten another person I was with, no matter how rushed and stressed out I was.  Not once.  I've never taken my niece out for ice cream and then wandered off and left her at the shop because I forgot what I was doing.

My cell phone?  Sure.  My car keys?  All the time.  A small child, though?

I've never accidentally lost one of those for several hours without noticing.  You'd think after a few minutes someone would say "well, Billy's being awfully quiet... and transparent.  Have you noticed that Billy's invisible?"

I'm mortified by all the people out there who say "oh, it's easy to forget your own child and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere, it can happen to anyone".

These are the same people who fell asleep and let someone sneak off with the nuclear launch codes up in North Dakota and said "these things happen, what's the big deal".

This isn't Home Alone, these kids aren't Macauley Culkin, and there are much worse things lurking around in the real world than Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.  The whole point of being a parent that you DON'T FORGET THESE THINGS.

I can't imagine why the authorities just keep grinning and making excuses as they give these kids back to these parents.

Call me nuts, but maybe whether or not the parents intentionally left the kid behind isn't the important part of this equation.  Maybe the important part is that they've just proven they're not competent enough to be entrusted with the welfare of someone who has to rely on them for their safety and well-being.

"But, I love my little boy!"

"Yes ma'am, but other people would like to love your little boy, too.  That's why we're sure you'll understand that we're placing him in the care of someone who won't accidentally leave him loitering on the street corner outside NAMBLA headquarters."

And in Israel!  Am I the only one who remembers the Palestinians kidnapping that retarded boy and chaining a bomb to his neck so they could send him wandering into a neighborhood, hoping the Israelis wouldn't put a bullet in a little kid before he got close enough for them to detonate him?!

Oh yes, I can see the point of all the "give the parents a break" people now.  I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

Like I said, I'm stranger than most, but I'm pretty sure the welfare of a child is one of those things you can't take a Mulligan on.

Answer 17

Lock up her parents and throw away the key.

Answer 18

This deplorable example of parenting seems to happen all too often often. Take a look a this link!!!

http://www.lilsugar.com/1629240

EDIT.

Thumbs down for caring about toddlers at risk??????

Answer 19

Those parents were bloody lucky!!!

Grrr! Stupid irresponsible people! It grinds my gears!!! They don't even deserve to have kids

Answer 20

the adults apparently though the child was with the other group

how awful glad the child is ok , i bet the parents are in big trouble for this  

Answer 21

i pity the  parents. they are stressed at an airport with four kids? they did not think oh dont bother with that one. lets get the plane and leave her. did they?. no . of course not. no one would do that. they were rushing and both thought someone else had her. for gods sake you lot. have some soul. i would like to bet they were ready to jump from the plane when they raelised. can you imagine how they felt?  

Answer 22

She wasn't "left alone" intentionally.  You make it sound as though it was a deliberate act.

It's easy enough thing to do - they were obviously late and were rushing with four kids.  Each probably thought the other had her - and if you're not sitting together, it would take a little longer for the penny to drop.

Edit:  Yes, I am a parent, and no, I've never lost a child.  but I have rescued quite a few "lost children" and returned them to their parents.

Answer 23

It's absolute madness. I know how hectic it can be when you are in a rush, but who in their right mind would forget their own child? And they didn't even notice till the plane had already taken off??