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Abducted girl, 5, found overnight in playground was ‘targeted’
Philadelphia Inquirer, by Frank Kummer*
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Posted By:Calvinesq, 1/15/2013 12:13:47 PM
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| A 5-year-old girl abducted from a West Philadelphia elementary Monday was found early this morning barely dressed and crying in an Upper Darby playground, say police. Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said that Nailla Robinson, taken by an unidentified woman in a black Muslim-style face covering from the Bryant Elementary School just across the border in Philadelphia, was found about 4:40 a.m. today. Authorities say they believe the child was targeted, but did not know the woman who abducted her.
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Comments: * and Emily Babay and Mari Schaefer
Questions: The abductor wore a hijab or a burqa (not clear from article). Could she have been identified without some sort of removal of the face covering?
Second question: Why didn´t the person who oversaw the release not follow proper procedures? Did the administrator feel intimidated into not pressing for ID or other verification?
I´m not jumping to conclusions, but the questions need to be asked.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 1/15/2013 12:24:48 PM (No. 9117805)
Time to move with her Auntie and Uncle in Bel Air. Glad she was recovered.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
realrep, 1/15/2013 12:28:38 PM (No. 9117813)
excellent humor #1
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jerseyden, 1/15/2013 12:30:57 PM (No. 9117820)
My first thought on seeing the video was how can the Phila school system let someone into the school dressed that way. To protect children we have got to stop being so P/C. The person could just as easily had a weapon. If people don´t want to identify themselves they shouldn´t be allowed to enter.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
The Architect, 1/15/2013 12:39:55 PM (No. 9117839)
I don´t understand why they are waiting to question the child. As time goes by, her memory of the events will become less clear and may become embellished.
I wonder if they will now ban burkas and hajibs since this was an obvious disguise and I don´t think "Tiffany" is a traditional Muslim name. There is more to this story than is being related in the press. How did the woman know the child´s name?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
blappy, 1/15/2013 12:46:29 PM (No. 9117857)
interesting that the girl not struggle or say something like "who the hell are you?"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
retiree, 1/15/2013 1:08:10 PM (No. 9117908)
Said on the news the teacher was a sub, but I would think they would know the child should not be able to go with anyone not being identified.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 1/15/2013 1:09:39 PM (No. 9117917)
I think they always take anyone, especially children, who have been abducted to be checked out medically first before questioning. And children are interviewed and questioned by a child psychologist who knows how to draw information out using drawings and age-specific questions.
No excuse for the school not to have followed procedures. We went to pick up my grandchildren at pre-school one time and my son had forgotten to tell them that morning that the grandparents would be coming for them. Everyone at the school knew us as we had picked them up many times before. No way would they give them to us this time until they had called my son at work to verify no matter how well they knew us. The school should have called the child´s mother even if this abductor did show ID. IDdoesn´t mean she had permission to take the child.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gobushcheneygo, 1/15/2013 1:17:50 PM (No. 9117938)
My thoughts, #5. Why would a 5 year old leave school willingly with a stranger shrouded in a black burqa?
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Calvinesq, 1/15/2013 1:41:54 PM (No. 9117985)
#5 and #8: I seem to recall from the TV news last evening that the mother also wore that kind of garb, or something similar. Perhaps this led to the child not questionning.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/15/2013 2:04:25 PM (No. 9118044)
#7, I´ve seen some of the ´liberal´ responses you´ve left here, but even you must know that at YOUR grandkids school, there is something YOU have that allows them to be as specific as possible in adhereing to the rules. BUT because of liberalism, and it´s proponents like YOU, that child is just collateral damage in the war AGAINST ´discrimination´. Democrats DO NOT CARE ABOUT PEOPLE. They only care about ´groups´ from whom they can derive votes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 1/15/2013 2:08:57 PM (No. 9118057)
Looks like #10 needs to up his meds. Just because you don´t agree with someone´s remarks doesn´t make them a ´liberal´. Especially when their remarks are neither unsound nor unusual...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/15/2013 2:10:26 PM (No. 9118062)
I have the answer, and it can be in place by the weekend.
Put up "This School is a Kidnapping-Free Zone" signs.
Viola, problem solved.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 1/15/2013 2:14:50 PM (No. 9118070)
I don´t have a clue what #10 is talking about, does anyone? Children at ALL schools should be safe from being abducted by anyone. All schools should be as careful as my grandkids school was with all children. Of course the school was wrong.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/15/2013 3:05:43 PM (No. 9118159)
Maybe I misread some of your responses, but regarding what you have that the other woman did not, I was speaking to your melannin content. The PC inherent in the left has allowed this to happen; God forbid someone there ask the woman to LIFT HER VEIL, but you and the Mrs.? Sit and wait while we contact the parents.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/15/2013 3:15:14 PM (No. 9118179)
Oh, and #11? Very simple search function; look up his other repsonses. I guess gun control is a very conservative measure? Amongst other comments. I do not disagree at all with what he said TODAY, I had to write on a very teeny keypad. What I was saying was that HE will be held to each and every regulation regarding removing a child from school, but NOT a burka´d woman. That was all.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
momof3, 1/15/2013 3:21:39 PM (No. 9118200)
I think that the Philadelphia School District did not want to offend this person, and that is why no questions asked. God forbid you offend a muslim.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 1/15/2013 3:55:11 PM (No. 9118296)
A five year old child is unlikely to question what adults do. Older children than this girl have been taken by the hand and led away.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kanphil, 1/15/2013 4:00:58 PM (No. 9118314)
Somebody on this thread is as crazy as an outhouse rat, and it ain´t #13.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
gagolfer, 1/15/2013 5:06:30 PM (No. 9118479)
I and the MR. were more than happy to sit and wait while our grandchildren´s parents were contacted before we were allowed to take the kids home. If the school was this strict and thorough about following their security procedures, even though they knew us well and on a first name basis, it meant our grandchildren and all the children there were in a secure place with good administrators. None of us have any idea what happened in the Philadelphia school, so everything is mere speculation. If they didn´t require parental permission to take a child out they had no security to begin with.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/16/2013 9:09:19 AM (No. 9119548)
#19, I agreed with you regarding the necessity for controls at schools; I laud your patience and wish society had a greater expectation of your behavior out of everyone. Sadly, we know that is not normal anymore. Poor behavior is the norm. I was trying to make the comment that #16 was regarding why you were made to adhere to the rules, and why the burka´d woman was not. I did not call you a liberal. I stated that I have read some of the ´liberal´ things you´ve written. Big difference, #11. I will say that to me, the equivocation I´ve seen in your comments(Tamron Hall a balanced reporter? Hillary Clinton DEFINITIVELY fell down and bumped her noggin, and all us conspiracy theorists are nuts?) leads me to believe that your sympathies lie somewhere in between.
A good day to all.
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