Kingsway mum's shock as daughter, three, found wandering alone

“It seems to me that The Citizen has committed a bit of a defamation against the nursery here. (I'm assuming that an organisation can be defamed, which I think is true). Someone should apologise for not checking their facts - step forward Mr. Mean.”

“I have used that nursery and plenty other nurseries over the years, in all of them you have to sign out your child and you are not allowed to leave with the child until you have done so. In my experience, a member of staff will hold onto a new child until they are familiar with the person collecting as well as imposing the rules of pick up onto the child. Once you have signed that child out and have left the room, the child is then your responsibility, regardless to whether you are still on school grounds.

My children have ran off from me, no parent is perfect, however, if they were involved in an accident outside Beech Green School that would be my fault, not the schools fault, for not keeping a tighter hold or eye on them. I am not saying the experience this child went through was not awful, I do think it has been blown out of proportion with a few twists added to make for a better story. The mother was wrong in contacting the newspaper, all she needed to do was approach the nursery, get the facts of what happened from them and see how they are going to deal with the incident, once happy and reassured the story ends. Its sad that this little girl will now not be attending Beech Green Nursery it's a fab place, with fantastic staff.”

“But a child didnt get out!!! Her Step dad picked her up and lost her himself!!!”

“@ chr1582 The nursery should review their procedures to make sure a child can't get out unsupervised. That is what should be done next.”

“This is utterly ridiculous this so called mother states she picked her child up when in fact a man collected her and signed her out of nursery. So in fact it's the mans fault who cannot control this child its nothing to do with the nursery. Why lie about this? What does it get you. What sort of person are you? Why didn't you contact the nursery first. Why go straight to the papers?
You are one very sad individual. It's such a shame. All my children went to beech green nursery it's fantastic.”

“LEANNE you do have to explain yourself because you are not telling the truth,you were not there.My husband and I saw what went on as did several other witnessess,not once have you mentioned in the paper that it was her step-dad who picked her up it was all about you, you only have yourself to blame for the comments there is no smoke without fire! I am utterly shocked that this has been allowed to happen you have made this wonderful nursery to look really bad. I think you need to check your information you recieved from your partner and make a FULL APOLOGY to the nursery as they have done nothing wrong.”

“The main bulk of this story is pure lies! Complete made up tosh, be it by The Citizen or by the mother, the fact is, its untrue! Beech Green Nursery is fantastic, my eldest attended there and is currently in juniors there as well. My daughter also currently attends the nursery and I have NO issues with the safety of my children whilst they are in the care of the nursery team or any other member of staff within the school! The fact of the matter is a 3 year old got away from an adult un-noticed, how many parents/carers can say the same has happened to them?! This "incident" happened at pick up time, when the door is open n closed a lot to allow parents collecting their children did it not? It is common for kids to see an open door n think, "yay run"! It happens in our homes, supermarkets, play centres... It does not warrant going to the papers for! This young girl has now lost out, due to the actions of her parents, on a fantastic nursery experience that she would have enjoyed.

Good luck on finding another nursery as outstanding as Beech Green and its staff!

And if, as mum suggests, the lies have been made by the writer of this article then shame on you! I thought the citizen was a paper and not a tabloid!!!!! However, for now I shall withold my judgement....”

“So YOU didn't pick her up YOURSELF nor did u find her in the carpark!!!
Why lie about who picked her up!!”

“I am Ruby-Annas mum the reason i went to the papers was to hope this would'nt happen again to another child! it was not rubys dad who picked her up its her step dad and when he arrived he didnt see Ruby so she must of been wandering around playground. He then went to classroom to go get her and the teachers were talking amongst themselves saying the girl with the little black boots because they had no clue to where my child was! yes your right the paper have over exagerated the part about the car park as i didnt say she was in the car park but by the time the teacher found ruby she was right by the gate thats meant to be called a SAFETY gate which clearly isn't as it was wide open! so Ruby was already out the classroom before step dad arrived so how long had she been out there? not that i should have to explain to any of you but my child is 3 years old and has no idea about road safety etc! Not only that but she could of been abducted or walked off anywhere if it had been a few more minutes she would have been gone. Makes me laugh all these negative comments for me being a caring mother and worrying sick wondering what could of happened. Suppose if it would have been any of your children it would be different. As for all the comments saying its lies, how ridiculous when the school contacted me to apologise themselves and say they had a staff meeting about it. Anyway as i said i should'nt have to explain myself for being a concerned parent.”

“I was there at the time! She was picked up and lost by her Father! He shouted at her for running off!! No fault of the Nursery!
The gates are ALWAYS LOCKED and were open as it was parent pick up time!
And YES it does matter who picked her up because if she felt the need to lie about that what else is she lying about!! its all rubbish!!”