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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at tyson's a few months ago with my 3 yr old DD. Who is beautiful and blonde and blue eyed, which I think is relevant to the story, only reason I'm saying it.

I was at the lego store getting a present for a nephew, it is a very small store. She went straigh to the lego table and I turned to survey the boxes on the wall and took maybe 3 steps away towards the other wall. I turned around after maybe 10 seconds and she was gone.

Searched the store quickly with my eyes, not there. Ran out into the hall, nowhere to be seen. A woman in the mall asked if I was looking for my daughter and said there was a distressed toddler down the way with a woman looking for her mom. I ran and got all the way to Macy's before I spotted her being pulled by a woman. She had pulled her hand away when I screamed her name. And DD came running to me, sobbing. And the woman who was helping her quickly vanished. I never got within 30 feet of her.

Who knows what happened. And how a child can get 100 yards away from a store in the time it takes for a parent to look at some lego boxes, realize the child is missing and come looking.

I'm grateful every single second of every single day that I don't need to think about those three steps and that 10 seconds as being the worst mistake of my entire life.

People and parents are human and you have to live your life and pray that the worst luck in the world never happens to strike you. There but for the grace of god go I. I hope the Smiths eventually find peace.

I hope you reported this. There are security cameras everywhere at Tysons mall. But, yes, a few pps here would say this could NEVER happen to them because blah, blah, blah.

I did call Tyson's and report it actually. I think they looked at the cameras but they never followed up with me. It happened so quickly and technically nothing terrible happened so I'm not sure what they could have done. The 'woman' had told the other woman, the one who told me which way they went, that she was looking for her mom. But that woman had a bad feeling, I know because she ran after me and when I thought I had gone the wrong way because there was no way they could have gotten that far she was still behind me and said no keep going they're farther down there.

I don't know what happened. But I know that it felt bad and it happened in less than a minute when I was less than 5 feet from my daughter. I just think people are really blind to the fact that there is no way we keep eyes on our kids 24/7. It's impossible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at tyson's a few months ago with my 3 yr old DD. Who is beautiful and blonde and blue eyed, which I think is relevant to the story, only reason I'm saying it.

I was at the lego store getting a present for a nephew, it is a very small store. She went straigh to the lego table and I turned to survey the boxes on the wall and took maybe 3 steps away towards the other wall. I turned around after maybe 10 seconds and she was gone.

Searched the store quickly with my eyes, not there. Ran out into the hall, nowhere to be seen. A woman in the mall asked if I was looking for my daughter and said there was a distressed toddler down the way with a woman looking for her mom. I ran and got all the way to Macy's before I spotted her being pulled by a woman. She had pulled her hand away when I screamed her name. And DD came running to me, sobbing. And the woman who was helping her quickly vanished. I never got within 30 feet of her.

Who knows what happened. And how a child can get 100 yards away from a store in the time it takes for a parent to look at some lego boxes, realize the child is missing and come looking.

I'm grateful every single second of every single day that I don't need to think about those three steps and that 10 seconds as being the worst mistake of my entire life.

People and parents are human and you have to live your life and pray that the worst luck in the world never happens to strike you. There but for the grace of god go I. I hope the Smiths eventually find peace.

I hope you reported this. There are security cameras everywhere at Tysons mall. But, yes, a few pps here would say this could NEVER happen to them because blah, blah, blah.

I did call Tyson's and report it actually. I think they looked at the cameras but they never followed up with me. It happened so quickly and technically nothing terrible happened so I'm not sure what they could have done. The 'woman' had told the other woman, the one who told me which way they went, that she was looking for her mom. But that woman had a bad feeling, I know because she ran after me and when I thought I had gone the wrong way because there was no way they could have gotten that far she was still behind me and said no keep going they're farther down there.

I don't know what happened. But I know that it felt bad and it happened in less than a minute when I was less than 5 feet from my daughter. I just think people are really blind to the fact that there is no way we keep eyes on our kids 24/7. It's impossible.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at tyson's a few months ago with my 3 yr old DD. Who is beautiful and blonde and blue eyed, which I think is relevant to the story, only reason I'm saying it.

I was at the lego store getting a present for a nephew, it is a very small store. She went straigh to the lego table and I turned to survey the boxes on the wall and took maybe 3 steps away towards the other wall. I turned around after maybe 10 seconds and she was gone.

Searched the store quickly with my eyes, not there. Ran out into the hall, nowhere to be seen. A woman in the mall asked if I was looking for my daughter and said there was a distressed toddler down the way with a woman looking for her mom. I ran and got all the way to Macy's before I spotted her being pulled by a woman. She had pulled her hand away when I screamed her name. And DD came running to me, sobbing. And the woman who was helping her quickly vanished. I never got within 30 feet of her.

Who knows what happened. And how a child can get 100 yards away from a store in the time it takes for a parent to look at some lego boxes, realize the child is missing and come looking.

I'm grateful every single second of every single day that I don't need to think about those three steps and that 10 seconds as being the worst mistake of my entire life.

People and parents are human and you have to live your life and pray that the worst luck in the world never happens to strike you. There but for the grace of god go I. I hope the Smiths eventually find peace.

I hope you reported this. There are security cameras everywhere at Tysons mall. But, yes, a few pps here would say this could NEVER happen to them because blah, blah, blah.

Anonymous wrote:I was at tyson's a few months ago with my 3 yr old DD. Who is beautiful and blonde and blue eyed, which I think is relevant to the story, only reason I'm saying it.

I was at the lego store getting a present for a nephew, it is a very small store. She went straigh to the lego table and I turned to survey the boxes on the wall and took maybe 3 steps away towards the other wall. I turned around after maybe 10 seconds and she was gone.

Searched the store quickly with my eyes, not there. Ran out into the hall, nowhere to be seen. A woman in the mall asked if I was looking for my daughter and said there was a distressed toddler down the way with a woman looking for her mom. I ran and got all the way to Macy's before I spotted her being pulled by a woman. She had pulled her hand away when I screamed her name. And DD came running to me, sobbing. And the woman who was helping her quickly vanished. I never got within 30 feet of her.

Who knows what happened. And how a child can get 100 yards away from a store in the time it takes for a parent to look at some lego boxes, realize the child is missing and come looking.

I'm grateful every single second of every single day that I don't need to think about those three steps and that 10 seconds as being the worst mistake of my entire life.

People and parents are human and you have to live your life and pray that the worst luck in the world never happens to strike you. There but for the grace of god go I. I hope the Smiths eventually find peace.

Anonymous wrote:I was at tyson's a few months ago with my 3 yr old DD. Who is beautiful and blonde and blue eyed, which I think is relevant to the story, only reason I'm saying it.

I was at the lego store getting a present for a nephew, it is a very small store. She went straigh to the lego table and I turned to survey the boxes on the wall and took maybe 3 steps away towards the other wall. I turned around after maybe 10 seconds and she was gone.

Searched the store quickly with my eyes, not there. Ran out into the hall, nowhere to be seen. A woman in the mall asked if I was looking for my daughter and said there was a distressed toddler down the way with a woman looking for her mom. I ran and got all the way to Macy's before I spotted her being pulled by a woman. She had pulled her hand away when I screamed her name. And DD came running to me, sobbing. And the woman who was helping her quickly vanished. I never got within 30 feet of her.

Who knows what happened. And how a child can get 100 yards away from a store in the time it takes for a parent to look at some lego boxes, realize the child is missing and come looking.

I'm grateful every single second of every single day that I don't need to think about those three steps and that 10 seconds as being the worst mistake of my entire life.

People and parents are human and you have to live your life and pray that the worst luck in the world never happens to strike you. There but for the grace of god go I. I hope the Smiths eventually find peace.

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Anonymous wrote:Very sad but a 3 year old should have been given swim lessons w/ a family who has a pool at their house.

Seems like a few pps here have all sorts of insights about this tragedy, the pool’s safety features, the kids’ swimming abilities, the parenting etc. How do you all know the non-public inside info?

Anonymous wrote:Very sad but a 3 year old should have been given swim lessons w/ a family who has a pool at their house.

Anonymous wrote:Oh yes let’s all pile on the nanny who is actually doing her job.

Anonymous wrote:Every parent has had momentary lapses or mistakes that could easily have resulted in a child’s death in slightly different circumstances. We all have forgotten to buckle the car seat once or let go of their hand in a parking lot and they darted or watched them tumble down stairs and NOT land wrong on their neck or spine. I don’t ever tell myself I’m a superior parent when stuff like this happens to others. I thank god that all my small lapses and missteps didn’t have the same tragic results.