peachykeen
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Just read something that made me sad, sorry to be downer so close to Christmas but I just feel so awful for this kid, can you imagine?
Boy home alone for 12 days
LONDON (Reuters) - A boy has spent 12 days fending for himself alone at home after his mother went missing before Christmas, police say. Rufus Pollack, 12, from southwest London, went to school and fed himself after his mother disappeared two weeks ago. He faces spending Christmas in local authority care as police continue searching for his mother, 53-year-old Jill Parker. "We are growing increasingly concerned," Scotland Yard police headquarters said in a statement on Sunday. "Her son...is obviously missing her, particularly at this time of year." Her disappearance came to light on Thursday after a concerned work colleague contacted police. Officers visited the house in Battersea, an upmarket suburb, and found the boy. He told them he had last seen his mother on Saturday, December 7. "He was worried about causing trouble if he told anyone that she had gone, so he kept silent," an unnamed police source was quoted as saying in the Mail on Sunday. Police said the missing woman had been suffering from depression but had never disappeared before. The Mail on Sunday said the boy's father, a company director, had died three years ago.
Boy home alone for 12 days
LONDON (Reuters) - A boy has spent 12 days fending for himself alone at home after his mother went missing before Christmas, police say. Rufus Pollack, 12, from southwest London, went to school and fed himself after his mother disappeared two weeks ago. He faces spending Christmas in local authority care as police continue searching for his mother, 53-year-old Jill Parker. "We are growing increasingly concerned," Scotland Yard police headquarters said in a statement on Sunday. "Her son...is obviously missing her, particularly at this time of year." Her disappearance came to light on Thursday after a concerned work colleague contacted police. Officers visited the house in Battersea, an upmarket suburb, and found the boy. He told them he had last seen his mother on Saturday, December 7. "He was worried about causing trouble if he told anyone that she had gone, so he kept silent," an unnamed police source was quoted as saying in the Mail on Sunday. Police said the missing woman had been suffering from depression but had never disappeared before. The Mail on Sunday said the boy's father, a company director, had died three years ago.
and now to have to spend Christmas in care. That poor lonely little boy.
