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Continuation of this crazy story...… | lisatong.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:37:18 +0000

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:51:58 +0000

Thanks Jane Doe for being so BRAVE in using a fake name and email address. If you are so passionate about this being a true or false story, why hide?
And, in all honesty – there is no legal grounds for hearsay. And as a courtesy to all those readers who are following this post – it would be nice if you could provide a link to this article. We are afterall, about giving proof – aren’t we? I challange you.

By: Jane Doe

Jane Doe — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:38:12 +0000

Congratulations! This has finally made the newspaper. Apple Daily today reports that because so many people had forwarded this story and because of all the negative publicity it was generating, had no choice but to call in the police over this matter.
As a result your sister’s, best friend’s colleague is now facing a possible 5 year jail term because they traced her original post from on the Chinese Baby Kingdom web forum.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:34:32 +0000

Simon,

Thank you for the sharing. There are 2 things that concern me with people’s observations of these urban myths. For starters, I’m now going to see if I can go directly to the source of this hearsay and determine who/how truthful this information is. ANd secondly, molestation is a very serious concern. There was an article in HK last year about a domestic helper who was paid by a stranger to regularly allow him to molest and assault the children (2 girls) she was caring for. She would bring them down to the local play area and just hand these 2 girls over to this man for a certain time. They only discovered it when the 5 year old made a comment to her father and he followed them the day after to investigate, upon which he called police and had them both arrested.

I echo your point about this being a real concern. This is because it can happen anywhere, any place, anytime. Vigilence is vitally important for our children and teaching them to voice out concerns of this nature is equally important.

Thank you for bringin up these points and for the reference to urban myths.

Lisa

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:30:51 +0000

Oops, sorry the enter button didn’t leave a space, it just posted the comment. The site with this article is http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/kidnap.asp The head shaving stuff is far fetched but child molestation is a very real concern and it can take less than a minute for our child to be violated (though I am much more concerned over this when we are in the US versus HK).

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:27:01 +0000

There is a great urban legends site called snopes.com that says this has been going around in the US for years & years.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:47:20 +0000

I am inclined to think that maybe it is an urban legend. It is in fact, passed from my sister who heard it from her friend whose closer to the source. I echo the points above in that maybe or maybe not that it should be in the news, but as READERS, we should filter what we hear and read and make judgments for ourselves. I completely agree with Gabrielle that WE as parents should hold ourselves responsible at ALL COSTS and not to take anything for granted. Thank you everyone – especially those who can look at an article from both sides and make critical judgments.

By: Gabrielle Colwill

Gabrielle Colwill — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:55:55 +0000

Whether the above story is true or not, when our kids gone missing in the public; nothing good comes to our mind. That’s not our fault; the truth is there are many perverts hiding around corners and ready to pound when we are not careful. There were 2 kidnappings happened last week in Hong Kong, 2 girls from TST and 1 young woman from Sham Tsui Po. The news were in the Chinese newspaper, all the girls were being molested before rescued. When my daughter, who was then 4 years old, walked away from us for 1 minute in the Phunket Airport; I went beserck. My husband thinks I was over-sensitive since then; I refuse to take our daughter to China. I agreed with crazy mother; we do not have the language. Anything goes wrong, by the time the embassy people arrive, our kids have been taken miles.
Another Crazy Mother

By: Bea

Bea — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:32:42 +0000

Well..about the shaved kid we had the same legend couple of years ago in Italy and they tryied to say that the illegal immigrants were responsible for that..here are Chinese (from mainland and not from HK).let me see the picture of the kid,let me talk to him..and then I can trust some of those legend.For those legend you can browse internet,they are collected in the web!
Furthermore..it should be common sense to don’t allow your kids to play around without you even if, reading around, you can find that HK is one of the safiest city ever!And..furthermore..there are no kidnapping in Tokyo and Toronto??mmm, not that sure about Tornonto.