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Bulger Murderer Blames Mum?
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Not to condone what so ever the despicable and grotesque acts carried out by the murderers, I have always wondered why the mother left a toddler on his own outside the shop?
I realise that she will ask herself that question every day and it must haunt her. Of course she isn't responsible but would you leave a toddler?
Not to condone what so ever the despicable and grotesque acts carried out by the murderers, I have always wondered why the mother left a toddler on his own outside the shop?
I realise that she will ask herself that question every day and it must haunt her. Of course she isn't responsible but would you leave a toddler?
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I am interested to know if perhaps at the time some parents would leave children for a brief moment. These days with the Bulger murder/Madeline Mcann it seems unthinkable but I remember when we lived abroad (1990) and my parents leaving me (6) and brother (4) a few times to meet friends next door/over the road for drinks.
I've seen mums walking along the road,toddler trailing behind at some distance. The worst was a mum that got off a bus I was on. She strided ahead until there was a good 30+ feet between them in a very busy city centre.
I think parents *may* have been a bit more trusting then,and their own parents may have left baby in carriage outside a shop or home...never thinking anything bad could happen.
I think parents *may* have been a bit more trusting then,and their own parents may have left baby in carriage outside a shop or home...never thinking anything bad could happen.
My son was born the same year as James Bulger. I was shopping with a baby, husband & 2 year old. I clearly remember to this day how my son was lost for about 3 mins in Asda. It was in the days between the killing and the murderers being arrested. I was convinced the same had happened to my son despite living 200 miles away. I ran around Asda like a lunatic trying to find him & along with staff & customers. He was found sat on a shelf eating a cadburys cream egg & hiding. No matter how hard you try when there is a distraction it is possible to lose contact.
Must have been scary Sycamore.
I totally appreciate what you and others say about the impossibility of monitoring a child 24/7. I can only imagine that James's mum thought it would be easier to "nip" into the shop for 30 seconds than take James in, and that's her decision as a parent to make, how could any of us predicted what came next.
In hindsight these day, we wouldn't dream of doing it. My point was pre Bulger, pre Mcann it wasn't out of the realms of possibility for a parent to leave a child briefly if they assessed the risk and thought there wasn't any.
I totally appreciate what you and others say about the impossibility of monitoring a child 24/7. I can only imagine that James's mum thought it would be easier to "nip" into the shop for 30 seconds than take James in, and that's her decision as a parent to make, how could any of us predicted what came next.
In hindsight these day, we wouldn't dream of doing it. My point was pre Bulger, pre Mcann it wasn't out of the realms of possibility for a parent to leave a child briefly if they assessed the risk and thought there wasn't any.
years ago when I was a lad, I was walking through York with an old timer from work and we happened on a toddler in a pushchair outside a small baker's shop. no sign of mum and noticing how the littl'un was coveting the shop's wares, the old timer went in, bought the gooiest cake he could see and presented it to the kid. he then urged that we retreat across the road.
mum returned a few minutes later (all the shops were small and taking an old-fashioned pushchair in would have been awkward), by which time the kid was blathered in cream, and mum was unhappy to say the least.
couldn't happen today, we'd have been arrested.
mum returned a few minutes later (all the shops were small and taking an old-fashioned pushchair in would have been awkward), by which time the kid was blathered in cream, and mum was unhappy to say the least.
couldn't happen today, we'd have been arrested.
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