Boy missing found dead. Parents!!!!!!

Seen this, such a shame. The park was apparently 2 miles from his house. I'm not a parent, though allowing such a young lad to venture that far away at that time of evening..?


RIP Little lad.
 
koolpc said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-33672499

This is so sad. Sickening that the parents let this 7yr go out on his own in the first place!!! Now they are probably distraught. Why in goodness sake to people let their kids go on their own at such a young age?

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Yeah RIP, must be every parent's nightmare.

Before you start ripping on the parents we need to know where they thought he was playing, for all we know they thought he was just down the road. I was only allowed a certain distance when "playing out" at that age, but I always went further.
 
I wouldn't allow my 9 year old out at that time of night and certainly not on his own.

My girls are 12 and 13 and ive only just started letting them go places on there own, but only if they go together and they keep in contact via there mobile.

RIP little lad :(
 
I think that's a bit of a harsh conclusion to jump to at this stage. Who knows what his curfew time was, the police were informed when he was 2 hours late home - it's not saying the parents allowed him out late at night.
 
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/really tragic. It's very easy to jump to conclusions but I don't think any parent wants to lose a child.
 
I see kids as young as my boy (4) playing in the streets and running around without adults/supervision. Theres no way I'd let my boy out at that age on his own.. I know what Newport is like :/
 
koolpc said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-33672499

This is so sad. Sickening that the parents let this 7yr go out on his own in the first place!!! Now they are probably distraught. Why in goodness sake to people let their kids go on their own at such a young age?

RIP
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To be fair I grew up in Shropshire in the early to mid 70's and was always off over the fields with my friends from an early age. Every kid was the same.
 
Doesn't matter about curfew etc. The kid shouldn't be out at 'any' time on his own! 7 yr old is just too young! My daughter is 8 and i would never let her go wandering off on her own!

Different if playing in the back garden which is secure and safe. Sorry but some people should not be parents!

Police said he had gone to play with friends in the park which was a 40min walk away!! The parents must have known this. Sad
 
Freakbro said:
I think that's a bit of a harsh conclusion to jump to at this stage. Who knows what his curfew time was, the police were informed when he was 2 hours late home - it's not saying the parents allowed him out late at night.
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his curfew time has nothing to do with the fact that it is irresponsible parenting to allow a 7 year old to venture that far out alone for christ's sake !! My parents used to let me out when I was around 8 to play with my mates but it was on the green 100m from our house. If I said I am going down the park which was over a mile away there is no chance in hell that my parents would have let me go alone !!!!!!
 
Poor kid. When I was that age, they were building a new estate behind our road, so my friends and I would often play on the building site in the evening. Jumping off scaffolding and into sand piles, running around half built houses and using the foundation trenches like war trenches with toy guns... building sites are loads of fun for a kid. As far as my parents knew, I was playing football round the back of the school that was right down the road.
 
Housey said:
To be fair I grew up in Shropshire in the early to mid 70's and was always off over the fields with my friends from an early age. Every kid was the same.
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Same here, just not in Shropshire :p

Times have changed now though and parents see danger around every corner, it's a shame that we have become so overprotective of our kids, but things like this do make it justified.

I have a four yr old and a 9 week old and won't be letting them out so far from home at 7 years old unless I, or another adult I know and trust are with them.

If I'm honest, the things me and my mates got up to at that age, it's a miracle we didn't turn up dead.
 
OhEsEcks said:
Poor kid. When I was that age, they were building a new estate behind our road, so my friends and I would often play on the building site in the evening. Jumping off scaffolding and into sand piles, running around half built houses and using the foundation trenches like war trenches with toy guns... building sites are loads of fun for a kid. As far as my parents knew, I was playing football round the back of the school that was right down the road.
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I used to do the same. Nowadays building sites are generally fenced off but back then I remember just wandering about them at weekends with my friends. I was probably about 8 or 9 at the time.
 
My 8 year old's in bed for 7pm! A 7 year old 40 mins walk away from the house at 8pm ish? Not happening in my book! Feel for the parents though, they'll never forgive themselves.
 
I was out and about at 8 or 9 years old, however there was a massive group of us and we never really wondered off. That was back in 1998, so not exactly a long time ago.

7 is pushing it - and there's still a lot of details to emerge on this one I'm sure.
 
A terrible thing, poor little chap.

Personally I never let my children out of sight at that age, of my two youngest, my 12/yo daughter is not allowed to leave the village (she can't cheat on this cerberus is watching) and my 5 y/o son, the garden.
 
Tragic story but I played out at 7, often with friends and often went further than my parents thought. Same went for my son.

I suppose with the media showing these tragic stories and those showing 'pedogeddon' means we live in different times from those halcyon days I suppose.
 
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