# Three cheers for Barb Quinlin - "found" kidnapped child in Belize

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 30, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-barb-quinlin-found-kidnapped-child-in-belize/237390 "2004-03-30T20:31:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-barb-quinlin-found-kidnapped-child-in-belize/237390/1 "2004-03-30T20:31:01Z")

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> OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. - A 4-year-old Texas boy who apparently was abducted by his father eight months ago is back home with his mother thanks to a Minnesota woman who met the father and son while vacationing in Belize.

[Abducted boy back home after tourist snaps photo](http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2475193)

Thank you Barb for being alert and following through with your instinct.

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-barb-quinlin-found-kidnapped-child-in-belize/237390/2 "2004-03-30T23:53:51Z")

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🙂

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-barb-quinlin-found-kidnapped-child-in-belize/237390/3 "2004-03-31T00:41:51Z")

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Great Story!

How long could that guy be living down at that hotel before the money ran out?

Strange indeed.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-cheers-for-barb-quinlin-found-kidnapped-child-in-belize/237390/4 "2004-03-31T01:08:53Z")

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Yanno, people ought to give more creedence to “parental radar”.

I was going up the escalators into the huge mall near us a year or two ago. We were four, myself, my wife and another couple- rushing to get up to buy movie tickets. I see this boy of perhaps…8? He’s going down the escalator, not near an adult. Odd, but not really odd- till I looked at his face. I watched him get to the bottom, look around, then turn and get right back on going up. I waited at the top for him.

He was totally lost, his grandparents had ( incredibly ) lost track of him amongst 5 other siblings they had with them at the mall. He’d been lost for over a half-hour, and was afraid to talk to the Security personnel. My wife and our friends chided me for being totally paranoid when I said, " Hold up, I wanna talk to this kid, something’s not right".

We got ahold of Mall Security anyway, they PA’d the child’s grandparents and all was fine. I just got a feeling, when I saw his face. He wasn’t crying at all…but he looked out of place, and I did something. ( I’m not trying to suck up for props here, I’m just saying that it was a case of having a bit of parental radar kick in, on a MUCH smaller scale ).

**Abby** , very positive heartwarming story. How keen of her to take a photo, and move on it upon her return. Kudos to that woman!!

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