10-16-2011, 12:43 PM
i haven't commented on anything on the site for a while but this story caught my attention as i have a child about the same age and i've been trying to keep up with it. i was up last night after reading everything thinking about some of the comments people made about the mother sleeping through this alleged kidnapping and how it wouldn't be so difficult as an exhausted mother. i just wanted to chime in with my thoughts on this.
i don't know much about the area but from what others from the area have commented it seems to be a safe area. i live in a nice, safe, "rural-ish" neighborhood where there is not much crime etc and as i said i have a baby about the same age. maybe it's just me, but my husband works nights sometimes and i DO NOT go to sleep when he is gone without checking that our windows and doors are locked etc. i also know that on the nights when he is away i do not sleep as well. i am more alert and wake to every little noise i hear. like i said, maybe i'm just a chicken but it seems so strange to me that a mother home with her children and without her husband overnight wouldn't check the doors and windows, sleep with a cell phone at her side, and sleep so soundly that she didn't hear an alleged intruder.
anyhow, just my two cents. my first thought after reading a few people talking about how sometimes it's not that difficult to sleep through noises you're used to completely made sense and i could relate. but as i continued to think about it and remember the point that the dad wasn't home and my experiences from the nights at home without my husband had me thinking it didn't make sense again.
i don't know much about the area but from what others from the area have commented it seems to be a safe area. i live in a nice, safe, "rural-ish" neighborhood where there is not much crime etc and as i said i have a baby about the same age. maybe it's just me, but my husband works nights sometimes and i DO NOT go to sleep when he is gone without checking that our windows and doors are locked etc. i also know that on the nights when he is away i do not sleep as well. i am more alert and wake to every little noise i hear. like i said, maybe i'm just a chicken but it seems so strange to me that a mother home with her children and without her husband overnight wouldn't check the doors and windows, sleep with a cell phone at her side, and sleep so soundly that she didn't hear an alleged intruder.
anyhow, just my two cents. my first thought after reading a few people talking about how sometimes it's not that difficult to sleep through noises you're used to completely made sense and i could relate. but as i continued to think about it and remember the point that the dad wasn't home and my experiences from the nights at home without my husband had me thinking it didn't make sense again.