I think part of the problem here lies in that people don't watch out for each other as much anymore. Now I'm not saying that anyone here is like that...but there are people out there who don't want to get involved. Either they don't care or they are fearful for their own lives. So they quietly walk away and don't help. It's a sad state of affairs but the reality of our world. Let me give you an example. Last night we went Christmas shopping. I'm standing in line checking out and the bathrooms in this store were immediately in front of the register where I was checking out. All of a sudden there is a child SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER from the bathroom. It was the most horrendous scream I ever heard and it continued for five minutes at least. I could not leave to go check because I was being checked out...but I repeatedly kept saying to the employees outside the bathroom..."somebody should go check to be sure that child is ok". Now here is the part that really bothers me. There were four employees right outside the bathroom cleaning and stocking things...NOT ONE of them went to see if everything was ok. They all just looked at each other and went "my goodness that is loud". I kid you not NO ONE went in to check on this child. Even at my insisting they just ignored my request and this child's screams. I won't be shopping at this store again!! As soon as I was checked out I went into the bathroom and the child's mother and his two sisters emerged from a stall. He was beet red and still crying but had softened his cries. I asked if everything was ok. She gave me the dirtiest look and said "he's fine...just misbehaving...now mind your own business!" I quickly responded "Well half the store could hear him screaming and I was the only one who would check to be sure someone wasn't hurting your child! If you weren't his mother and someone was really in here harming him...no one would have noticed." She stood there absolutely flabbergasted. Then thanked me for checking in on her child. She couldn't believe that with all his screaming that no one cared outside that door. She said she thought for sure she was going to get kicked out of the store. Apparently he was misbehaving and she took him in there to calm him down. His reaction is to scream when he doesn't get his way. We walked out the door of the bathroom and not one of the employees said a thing. Most didn't even look. How did they know that this child wasn't being hurt or abducted??!! NO ONE wanted to get involved. It was so sad and absolutely made me sick to my stomach.
This very well could have been the case for Dru. Maybe someone heard something but didn't want to get involved. They could be witnesses that the LE has info from. With it dark (I'm assuming it was dark because I live in IL and at 4:30 it's dark) it would have made it much easier to abduct her without anyone seeing anything though. I'm sure she was terrified and did as she was told...especially with a knife threatening her. We can hope that she fought back but none of us know what we would react like in that situation. So if all was quiet and dark...she easily could have been taken quickly without anyone noticing. Especially if he parked next to her.
It is all so sad...so frightening...
Praying for Dru~
I guess they moved the car for the light.
