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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zable" data-source="post: 132321" data-attributes="member: 47">Guidelines are never the law cast in stone. UK law sets no age limit when children can be left alone. Prosecutions for leaving children alone have been over children up to the age of 14."If it is deemed that children have been neglected because there are no adults around..." – how is that determined? By someone’s offended sensibilities?"...criminal proceedings can be brought" – can though, not must. Obviously, other factors are considered. Nothing’s always black and white.Tim Haines was arrested for “wilful exposure of a child to a risk of harm”. He denied the allegations against him. Was found guilty by a magistrate’s court, then handed an absolute discharge.  ….But he appealed anyway, because he could not accept having the offence on his record. His appeal was successful. Reportedly, the judge said: “Is that supposed to be a crime?”Are you really “looking after your children” when they’re asleep in one or more rooms and you’re in another?The Ocean Club had a nightly booking by the Tapas 9 for dinner at a particular table on the restaurant’s terrace. From that table, the group of holidaying friends could see their adjoining apartment blocks some 50 metres away as the crow flies, beyond a swimming pool, landscaping/shrubbery and a side-road. The McCann’s apartment was on the corner of that side road and the main road that ran down past the entrance to the Tapas Restaurant.The apartment had a front entrance and a side entrance. Because of the swimming pool and shrubbery/landscaping being between the side entrance to their apartment and their table, the McCanns said they would usually leave the restaurant by its main entrance at night and take the main road back to their apartment – a distance of 70 metres, they said. A British reporter walked from the table to the front gate of the McCanns via the restaurant’s main entrance and timed it at 80 paces.If a child’s parent is seated some 80 paces away from the child – would that not be like being in the garden of your compound and the child asleep upstairs?The Tapas 9 say they took turns to check on their children at intervals (15-30 minutes). I agree, that appears worse than leaving a child alone for 5 mins. I think, though, that a child is safer asleep in their own bed than asleep in a car parked on a main road (as opposed to parked in a driveway).</blockquote>

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