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Yes, Julie, a tragedy for him and all the family.

Love to you and your daughter.



http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/9864132.Search_for_Tia_Sharp_enters_seventh_day/
The dad of missing Tia Sharp has revealed how friends and family are looking for the missing 12-year-old girl in case she turns up in his home town of Northampton.
Her father, Steven Carter, aged 30, who lives in Moulton having moved from London 10 years ago, said: "Tia obviously has links with myself in Northampton, as well as her granddad and uncle and her cousin.
"We got a phone call that she could have possibly have gone up this way but there has been no sighting whatsoever. We have people waiting around for her and looking out for her just in case she does come here but at the moment the police are looking at CCTV to try to follow her."
Mr Carter said both sides of the family were devastated at her disappearance, but said he was still hopeful she would be found. He said: "Both sides of the family are devastated.

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I haven't seen the screen shot, i only caught the tail end of the post cos i fell a kip....but after how i felt before that added to it if you get what i mean

Anything that they don't like is being deleted x

Yes and I'm afraid i've seen the screen shots too Julie :-S

Vera i agree but how do you think he must have felt receiving a call to say his daughter is missing.......that is what i mean by i feel for him.


Muffy i think that's how it was at 1st but on reading that group no-one knows whats going on everyone keeps chopping & changing their minds.....Did you see the money one

Yep that's how I read it Julie....if they'd have said that in the first place rather than *no t shirts apart from family* then they'd have got loads wearing them and free publicity to boot !!! Seemed dead odd to me...but yeah reasonable explanation now we know.

They are very high handed on there...one girl, trying to help asked a perfectly reasonable question and had her head bitten off by a whole mob of them !..she wasn't being in the least bit critical (which you shouldn't on a site dedicated to the child) but she was just trying her best to be of help bless her. x

I agree, mobiles are a boon to keep in contact with your children and vice versa but I fear that some people put too much store on them (I am not saying that is you Muffyxx) and allow their children more freedom because they have one. It is a good way of detecting a child's last whereabouts for the Police but that is sometimes when it is too late. In this event anyway Tia did not have her mobile with her.

Julie, the father still has some responsibility either legally or morally even if he is not local. I just feel that there were a lot of adults and no one there for Tia but perhaps i'm being too judgemental and don't want to be that at this terrible time for the family.

Vera

my son is 6 n has my old mobile, with only immediate family members numbers in,

yes the t-shirt thing is queer, however the general public are now allowed to wear t shirt baring her picture, but not allowed the same piture the family are usng :-S

I think on that group there's to many tell people what to do i do read it but don't comment

Not sure if i read it right though they are say yes to the t-shirt but not the same photo as that one is of when Tia was younger x

Absolutely Vera...but mobiles can be tracked if necessary and mostly my concern is with them letting me know if there is a problem or they're in trouble of any kind more than anything else.

Yes Julie...that was me....seemed like a really odd thing to stipulate when folk were trying to help just wondered why x

Her Dad isn't down this way Vera he now lives in Nottingham

I feel for all the adults but most of all Tia. There was a mother, father, mother's partner, grandma, grandma's partner. Yet this girl was walking alone. Surely one of them could have accompanied her to do a bit of shopping. Now I'm not going to say any more on the subject of families.

I do worry Muffyxx about the false sense of security given to mobile phones. Whilst I am sure you are very vigilent with your children and it is a comfort to you and them that they have a phone, when it comes to a child being snatched, the mobile phone is meaningless apart from later on in a Police investigation to detect its whereabouts.

I do hope Tia comes back safe and well. Can't bear to think of the alternative.

Vera

Joy.....I do feel for her Dad

Muffy.....is that you that posted about the T-shirt

Does make me laugh how so many sneer at children having mobiles like it's some sort of crime..when in reality it's a win win for both child and parent ...if they're worried or there is a problem,you are there at the touch of a button....likewise parents can always check in and make sure all is well .
I won't let mine out without one x

It is a fine line isn't it between looking out for them and not letting them go to build up confidence and awareness.

I only meet my daughter (13) if shes staying behind after school for a club. Shes got a 3/4 hour walk there & has to leave at 7:45am for an 8:30 start. Fortunately by time shes passed the houses there are lots of children walking, same on a normal time home.

She got her first mobile in yr7, and used to text me when she got near school.

Now she only texts me if shes leaving slightly later, or if shes going to be a bit late as shes popped into Sainsburys on the way home with the girls.

She also walks to town by herself to meet friends. Town is only a 15 min walk away, past lots of houses and often used roads. And she does ring me to say she there, and when she leaves to walk home.

I still worry to death although I know shes as safe as she can be.

It is so sad that you have to take all these precautions when I think back to the 70s when mine were this age and allowed a lot more freedom and no mobiles at all.. But I don't blame you I would be the same nowadays.

I'm ashamed to say I walk the 10 minute walk up the road to meet my yr 7 daughter halfway.......

actually I'm not ashamed tbh...she wants me too and I'm happy to oblige x

Exactly Stray

Both of mine didn't get phones till they were in Y6 as i still walked up to the school with them

My son got to the end of Y7 before he stopped texting me to say he had reach school but my daughter will keep going it though she'll go into Y8.......I asked her did her friends let their parents know they were there & she said no only she does.She texts to say she is there then i ring her back

I'm in 2 minds really.

Did the gran firstly say she was at home, as she knew by human nature her partner would immediately be suspected once it was revealed he was home alone with her even if he is innocent ?

Or is it a cover up like the Shannon Matthews case?.- - something tells me why would they do this knowing the outcome of the Shannon case coupled with the public outcry it would bring to them.

Whatever happens it sickens me to my soul that this girl is out there somewhere, and the pain her family feels must be like none on earth.