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At the moment my local Facebook groups (including the other East Dulwich Forum, East Dulwich Mums, SE23 Mums etc) are full of shared posts warning of attempted child abductions in south London. I think there have been maybe 5 or 6 conversations started in the last week. Is this actually happening and if so why isn't it in the news? I'm inclined to believe this is a case of people sharing "news" that they haven't actually verified in any way. But who am I to know. Can anyone share any light?
Dulwich Born And Bred

Dulwich Born And Bred

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East Dulwich Mums is my group and I did cite that it should be taken with a pinch of salt since there is no evidence that these attempted abdication took place. Furthermore none took place in Dulwich hence I turned off commenting on group. As for the FB EDF, nothing is monitored on that group.
IlonaM

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These are a couple of recent articles I have found re: reports of attempted abductions in Bromley and police response to online speculation:


13th May - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/detectives-investigating-child-abductions-find-no-evidence-of-risk-to-pupils-across-bromley-b935002.html


4 days ago - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/south-london-child-abduction-reported-b1852116.html

TheCat

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notimpressed Wrote:

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> Thick people quite often share posts on Facebook

> about child abductions that are completely false,

> but they dont have the intelligence to

> analyse/research where the story has come from and

> consider that it may not be true. People kind of

> enjoy being outraged and letting others know about

> it.

>

> Its likely utter nonsense, and if you believe it,

> well im afraid you cant be too clever either.



This isn't politics or culture wars we're talking about....its child abduction...there isn't 'another side to the story'...its child abduction.....I sincerely doubt even the perennially outraged would try to manufacture outrage about such a topic.


As it happens, our friends were in the park when a woman came up to them screaming about her son being missing. Turns out they managed to find him as he was leaving the park with a man who had offered the boy 'duck food' to feed the ducks. The bloke managed to scamper off. So while I may have heard that second hand....Im inclined to believe that my friends wouldn't concoct 'outrage' over such a thing for kicks....

Sephiroth

Sephiroth

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Many many years ago on this forum, someone posted about an attempted child abduction in the area


At the time I was inclined to pooh-pooh it as there hand't been any official reports anywhere, and something as horrific as that would surely have made the papers/local news rather than say-so on a local forum - and I posted exactly that


I was talking absolute nonsense - it was a very real incident and the people involved really really don't need to hear randos claiming it's all made up.

Seabag

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notimpressed Wrote:

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> Thick people quite often share posts on Facebook

> about child abductions that are completely false,

> but they dont have the intelligence to

> analyse/research where the story has come from and

> consider that it may not be true. People kind of

> enjoy being outraged and letting others know about

> it.

>

> Its likely utter nonsense, and if you believe it,

> well im afraid you cant be too clever either.



How?s your search for your pub party going?

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notimpressed Wrote:

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> Thick people quite often share posts on Facebook

> about child abductions that are completely false,

> but they dont have the intelligence to

> analyse/research where the story has come from and

> consider that it may not be true. People kind of

> enjoy being outraged and letting others know about

> it.

>

> Its likely utter nonsense, and if you believe it,

> well im afraid you cant be too clever either.


Thick people don?t know how to use an apostrophe too.

KalamityKel

KalamityKel

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???? Wrote:

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> notimpressed Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Thick people quite often share posts on

> Facebook

> > about child abductions that are completely

> false,

> > but they dont have the intelligence to

> > analyse/research where the story has come from

> and

> > consider that it may not be true. People kind

> of

> > enjoy being outraged and letting others know

> about

> > it.

> >

> > Its likely utter nonsense, and if you believe

> it,

> > well im afraid you cant be too clever either.

>

> Thick people don?t know how to use an apostrophe

> too.


Was it wrong of me to chuckle at this? ;-)

JohnL

JohnL

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KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Was it wrong of me to chuckle at this? ;-)


I remember the clowns in white vans that were rumoured to be everywhere once (was there some truth in it or not)


But if someone especially a child complains you have to investigate.

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