Posted by: prakashkurra | May 16, 2008

Child abduction alert in Ottawa

Take a look at the article.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/05/15/5572661-sun.html

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  1. Thanks for this one, One can never be too careful.

    By: Pragya on May 21, 2008
    at 7:28 am

  2. While these attempted abductions are disturbing, I can’t help but wonder; are the potential abductors totally incompetent in all cases? Did any attempt succeed at all? The answer to the later question is no. Our level of news awareness coupled with amber alert system would alert us to any real cases of abductions.

    While having a healthy dose of general fear and danger awareness is a good thing, too much of it can cause us to stop living the very life that we are so very protective off.

    Just to play on the other side of the fence, as Prakash is the poster of the post… Could it be that none of the attempts were attempts, but over jealous parents taking extreme exceptions to adult/children interactions. For instance just yesterday, a person with down syndrome was trying to get Munrina to do a high 5 to her. As Munrina did not understand what he was saying, he gently took her hand, and did a high 5, and kept on going on his way. This incident was being witnessed by Mona, who did get very concerned for a brief moment. Now imagine for a moment that at the time, either the chilld, or the parent raises an alarm, and the no ill meaning person gets scared, and runs away. Attempted abduction???? Maybe …… not. A person with disheveled hair, yellow teeth, not very well kept clothes, just participating in a simple outing under the care of a care giver in a community center.

    In general, the actual rate of stranger kidnappings is like 1 in 3 million or so in Canada. You have a much greater chance of not coming back from office tomorrow. Most kidnappings/abductions that do occur are by known ( close family ) people. And much more likely, the case involves estranged spouses, where the custody issues are still termed as kidnappings, but not stranger kidnappings.

    Had to put in my $0.0199 in.

    By: Satvinder on May 21, 2008
    at 11:23 pm


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