Woman arrrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct schoolgirl

10:30am Friday 5th October 2012 in News Exclusive By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter

Woman arrrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct schoolgirl Woman arrrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct schoolgirl

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct a sixyear- old girl from outside her school.

Police launched an investigation after a woman picked up the child, put her on her back and crossed the road with her.

The woman was stopped when the girl’s mother noticed her. It is believed the mother contacted the police and a woman – who had been in the area before the suspected attempted abduction – was subsequently arrested.

The incident took place outside Heene First School in Norfolk Street, Worthing.

It is thought the woman headed in the direction of nearby Victoria Park with the girl.

A Sussex Police statement initially said: “Police are investigating after a woman approached a girl as she left her Worthing school on Tuesday afternoon “The local woman, who is often seen near the school, gave the six-year-old girl a piggy back and crossed the road with her before her mother became aware and challenged her.

“She handed the child back and walked away.”

The spokeswoman subsequently added: “Police investigating a report that a six-yearold girl was approached as she left her Worthing school on Tuesday afternoon have arrested a woman on suspicion of attempted abduction.”

For the full story see today's Argus.

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pjwilk says...
10:55am Fri 5 Oct 12

When they catch her she should go to prison for life,with hard labour.

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pjwilk says...
10:56am Fri 5 Oct 12

I see they caught her,if guilty carry out above measures.

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graham_Seagull says...
11:21am Fri 5 Oct 12

we don't know the circumstances to this - there is no reference to whether the woman is related to the child in some way, nothing else at all. There's obvioulsy a possibility of mental illness on the part of the woman.

Typical sensationalist argus attempting to link AGAIN to the poor April Jones story

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Nathan_Adler says...
11:28am Fri 5 Oct 12

Whilst I am all for the introduction of lifelong torture for kiddy fiddlers, this woman is probably a bit scatty and may have lost a baby or something herself.

Whilst she clearly needs help and (if not mad, punishment) I have an open mind at present.

If she is like Myra Hindley or Rose West, then may she have bleach injected in her eyes, but until then I reserve judgement.

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worthinggirl86 says...
11:37am Fri 5 Oct 12

the woman does have a mental problem. shes always hanging around my area trying to talk to children. she tried talking my daughters pram off heronce and locked another child in a bin cuboard aswell. she need to be seen by health professionals

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Anna Roberts says...
11:44am Fri 5 Oct 12

The Argus has made no link to April Jones - they are unrelated incidents from what I can see - and we don't know if she has mental health problems. I am sure that the police will be investigating this angle.

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Baldseagull says...
11:47am Fri 5 Oct 12

graham_Seagull wrote:
we don't know the circumstances to this - there is no reference to whether the woman is related to the child in some way, nothing else at all. There's obvioulsy a possibility of mental illness on the part of the woman.

Typical sensationalist argus attempting to link AGAIN to the poor April Jones story
I think this would be reported in the same manner, whatever happened to be in the national news at the time.
I don't see any sensationalism in the article, it is a bit limited but not in any way sensationalist.

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odgeuk says...
12:03pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Would be good to know if the lady is confirmed mentally ill (assume anyone who nonchalantly takes someone elses' child from the school gates on piggy back probably isn't quite in the same reality as you and I). And if she is going to receive help and be prevented from being a risk to children in the future, guess that part of the story won't be exciting enough to report on though...

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graham_Seagull says...
12:19pm Fri 5 Oct 12

odgeuk wrote:
Would be good to know if the lady is confirmed mentally ill (assume anyone who nonchalantly takes someone elses' child from the school gates on piggy back probably isn't quite in the same reality as you and I). And if she is going to receive help and be prevented from being a risk to children in the future, guess that part of the story won't be exciting enough to report on though...
precisely. There is no journalism to speak off, in fact I bet the report is lifted word for word from the Police media release.

If there was any hint of journalism I suspect it would uncover a rather sad story in which the woman needs help, and that, wouldn't quite make the same sensationalistic headlines,

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getThisCoalitionOut says...
12:28pm Fri 5 Oct 12

The sad fact is that nowadays people with mental health problems are just left without the help they need due to the cuts and also due to the reason this all started - Thatcher decided to cut costs and started "Care in the Community" and you can see the result here. It doesn't always work and with this current unelected government it's going to get a lot worse.

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Anna Roberts says...
12:35pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Hi
The police did not release information about this, we approached them after it was mentioned by a parent on Facebook.
Then they released something.
We also then approached the school and WSCC.
The police are still not actively releasing this information.
We will obviously follow up this story when she answers bail.
Anna

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spa301 says...
12:39pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Anna Roberts wrote:
The Argus has made no link to April Jones - they are unrelated incidents from what I can see - and we don't know if she has mental health problems. I am sure that the police will be investigating this angle.
Very encouraging to see that Anna is responding to comments on her article.
What a shame that Ben Parsons felt unable to regarding his shameful report yesterday.

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domingal79 says...
1:03pm Fri 5 Oct 12

As the others have said, there are no details in this article. If it is the woman that I believe it is, she can regularly be seen hanging around Victoria Park and trying to play with the kids. She tried to take my baby boy from my arms a year ago, but she seemed to only want to play with him. It scared me at the time, but I did believe she was harmless.

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saveHOVE says...
2:27pm Fri 5 Oct 12

worthinggirl86 wrote:
the woman does have a mental problem. shes always hanging around my area trying to talk to children. she tried talking my daughters pram off heronce and locked another child in a bin cuboard aswell. she need to be seen by health professionals
Glad you wrote this. Hope it sobers a few people up before they comment.

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lillylou says...
2:49pm Fri 5 Oct 12

Hopefully she will have a nasty accident and vanish from the earth before she harms a child, and being mental surly makes her more dangerous could people stop feeling sorry for freaks and feel for the victims !!!

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pebble counter says...
2:54pm Fri 5 Oct 12

There are some evil types about, sounds like this woman isn't one of them.

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graham_Seagull says...
3:09pm Fri 5 Oct 12

lillylou wrote:
Hopefully she will have a nasty accident and vanish from the earth before she harms a child, and being mental surly makes her more dangerous could people stop feeling sorry for freaks and feel for the victims !!!
She may well be a 'victim' herself. Shame on you for coming out with such a statement.

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Roundbill says...
3:56pm Fri 5 Oct 12

"arrrested" ... "sixyear -old" ... "six-yearold" - I think the real story here is that Argus churnalists are too, um, tired and emotional to create decent copy.

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MuammarQaddafi says...
4:23pm Fri 5 Oct 12

lillylou wrote:
Hopefully she will have a nasty accident and vanish from the earth before she harms a child, and being mental surly makes her more dangerous could people stop feeling sorry for freaks and feel for the victims !!!
The lady doth protest too much,
methinks.

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gnarlychaos says...
4:29pm Fri 5 Oct 12

The article could only report the information made available at the time and as far as i can see the only connection in this unfortunate incident to April Jones is the ever increasing need for parents to be constantly vigilant of there children.
There are so many sick perverts around these days many of whom judging by the comments on this page alone, are in urgent need of admission to a psychiatric unit and read the Argus.

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Saamie says...
4:49pm Fri 5 Oct 12

So glad the woman was stopped and the child is safe.

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Baldseagull says...
5:31pm Fri 5 Oct 12

graham_Seagull wrote:
odgeuk wrote:
Would be good to know if the lady is confirmed mentally ill (assume anyone who nonchalantly takes someone elses' child from the school gates on piggy back probably isn't quite in the same reality as you and I). And if she is going to receive help and be prevented from being a risk to children in the future, guess that part of the story won't be exciting enough to report on though...
precisely. There is no journalism to speak off, in fact I bet the report is lifted word for word from the Police media release.

If there was any hint of journalism I suspect it would uncover a rather sad story in which the woman needs help, and that, wouldn't quite make the same sensationalistic headlines,
How is it a "sensationalistic" headline?
Its a fact, a woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct a schoolgirl.
How would you write the Headline?

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hubby says...
8:32pm Fri 5 Oct 12

If the lady does have a mental illness then she should be being looked after,not out on the streets giving little girls pigy backs.

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sasquatch2202 says...
11:09pm Fri 5 Oct 12

There are many unfortunate people with mental health problems walking our streets thanks to thatchers(spit) cost cutting, so called care in the community policy. Subsequent governments have then systemat
ically taken away funding for many help centres leaving people vunerable.

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disgruntledHove says...
1:10am Sat 6 Oct 12

Ha! Have to laugh at the anti Thatcher comments regarding Care in the Community .....How come the parties you voted for didn't change it???? Surely leary Blairy was in no.10 long enough to change things and reopen the victorian institutions.

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The Wolfie says...
6:19am Sat 6 Oct 12

Interesting that if this had been a man he would have been immediately labelled a paedophile...

I can only assume that women are never guilty of this crime - just mentally ill or have lost a child.

Stinks of double standards and sexism to me.

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Goldenwight says...
7:50am Sat 6 Oct 12

Roundbill wrote:
"arrrested" ... "sixyear -old" ... "six-yearold" - I think the real story here is that Argus churnalists are too, um, tired and emotional to create decent copy.
Arrrested? Maybe the journalist comes from zummerzet, loike me?

After all, we don't all speak like 1940s BBC radio announcers. But you have given me a good idea- I'm going to send a couple of my favourite badly spelled signs in to the Argus. Hopefully they will print them, and we can start a new column- does that sound a good idea? After all, it fills in a bit of paper and doesn't require any actual journalism.

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Goldenwight says...
7:55am Sat 6 Oct 12

Some years ago, my father used to pick up my nieces from junior school, because their mum worked until about 6pm. One day he wasn't well, so I went instead and the teachers refused to let the girls out of the classroom to come to me- despite the fact that they pointed and obviously knew me. In fairness, the teacher came out and told me this so that I wouldn't be unduly concerned, but the kids had to sit there until the school contacted the parents to confirm who I was.

So how exactly did THIS incident happen? Lets see a bit of journalism and investigation, eh?

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lillylou says...
9:09am Sat 6 Oct 12

The Wolfie wrote:
Interesting that if this had been a man he would have been immediately labelled a paedophile...

I can only assume that women are never guilty of this crime - just mentally ill or have lost a child.

Stinks of double standards and sexism to me.
Totally agree

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lillylou says...
9:12am Sat 6 Oct 12

graham_Seagull wrote:
lillylou wrote:
Hopefully she will have a nasty accident and vanish from the earth before she harms a child, and being mental surly makes her more dangerous could people stop feeling sorry for freaks and feel for the victims !!!
She may well be a 'victim' herself. Shame on you for coming out with such a statement.
i take you are a hypacrit you won't mind if someone abducts your kid then or is it different or many you think people are allowed to do this and if someone had caught April jones before that Peado drove away he would have done again so maybe you wally this woman might kill next time !!!

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plantwoman says...
9:30am Sat 6 Oct 12

graham_Seagull wrote:
we don't know the circumstances to this - there is no reference to whether the woman is related to the child in some way, nothing else at all. There's obvioulsy a possibility of mental illness on the part of the woman. Typical sensationalist argus attempting to link AGAIN to the poor April Jones story
You're seeing links where there are none.

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lillylou says...
9:46am Sat 6 Oct 12

MuammarQaddafi wrote:
lillylou wrote:
Hopefully she will have a nasty accident and vanish from the earth before she harms a child, and being mental surly makes her more dangerous could people stop feeling sorry for freaks and feel for the victims !!!
The lady doth protest too much,
methinks.
Doth doth are you her special friend then

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gheese77 says...
10:28am Sat 6 Oct 12

The Wolfie wrote:
Interesting that if this had been a man he would have been immediately labelled a paedophile...

I can only assume that women are never guilty of this crime - just mentally ill or have lost a child.

Stinks of double standards and sexism to me.
Strange thing is that most pedophiles are men you may find that sexist but it's still true

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gheese77 says...
10:28am Sat 6 Oct 12

The Wolfie wrote:
Interesting that if this had been a man he would have been immediately labelled a paedophile...

I can only assume that women are never guilty of this crime - just mentally ill or have lost a child.

Stinks of double standards and sexism to me.
Strange thing is that most pedophiles are men you may find that sexist but it's still true

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l 2010 says...
11:26am Sat 6 Oct 12

The fact is whether this woman is ill or not, she tried to abducted a child. A child who was not hers!! Please don't make excuses that she has mental health problems, that is no excuse! What would have happened if nobody noticed? There is already a 5 year old missing in Wales, this could have been another one.

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rolivan says...
12:36pm Sat 6 Oct 12

Hopefully when this woman was arrested She was assessed by a Professional to see whether she needs to be detained as being a danger to herself or the public.I am not going to make excuses for her but if all of those people know she has a problem why hasn't it been reported and if she has then the Authotities have a case to answer;
Some of the vitriol that is allowed to be published here amazes me,when according to Jo Wadsworth they stopped the ability to comment about anything to do with Travellers for this very reason.

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lillylou says...
3:02pm Sat 6 Oct 12

l 2010 wrote:
The fact is whether this woman is ill or not, she tried to abducted a child. A child who was not hers!! Please don't make excuses that she has mental health problems, that is no excuse! What would have happened if nobody noticed? There is already a 5 year old missing in Wales, this could have been another one.
Well said I'm sick of people excusing nutters

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Baldseagull says...
6:17pm Sat 6 Oct 12

lillylou wrote:
l 2010 wrote:
The fact is whether this woman is ill or not, she tried to abducted a child. A child who was not hers!! Please don't make excuses that she has mental health problems, that is no excuse! What would have happened if nobody noticed? There is already a 5 year old missing in Wales, this could have been another one.
Well said I'm sick of people excusing nutters
It isn't an excuse but an indication that she may not have had bad intentions and is possibly just a child herself, mentally.

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hubby says...
11:25pm Sat 6 Oct 12

I'm sick of "nutters" calling other people "nutters".

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John Steed says...
12:11am Sun 7 Oct 12

we have a well know asylum seeker living around here (clifton road,worthing) who is callled nut nut by her own countrymen, she is well known for her antics mainly with adults, often those from asian or african countries. the police are on first names with this person, she is a nusiance certainly, annoying,often, forcefull,definately but a danger to herself or others no not in a hundred years but one wonders why have we somany but mental, no way. clever enough to claim assylum here in the uk and keep the process going on for years and years.

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lillylou says...
12:53pm Sun 7 Oct 12

hubby wrote:
I'm sick of "nutters" calling other people "nutters".
I take it your not nutty then ?

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F in L says...
12:32am Mon 8 Oct 12

If this woman comes near my kid I will swing for her. I think it is a disgrace that kids are being subjected to this unhinged female, whatever their ages. The spelling,, grammar and lack of editorial control make this atrocious reading

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lillylou says...
5:30pm Mon 8 Oct 12

Baldseagull wrote:
lillylou wrote:
l 2010 wrote:
The fact is whether this woman is ill or not, she tried to abducted a child. A child who was not hers!! Please don't make excuses that she has mental health problems, that is no excuse! What would have happened if nobody noticed? There is already a 5 year old missing in Wales, this could have been another one.
Well said I'm sick of people excusing nutters
It isn't an excuse but an indication that she may not have had bad intentions and is possibly just a child herself, mentally.
I bet you'd say the same for mark bridger" poor man he can't help it if he's a Peado" please wise up !!!

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