{"id":147097,"date":"2018-06-27T08:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/mother-suing-thomas-cook-over-abduction\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T08:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T08:34:46","slug":"mother-suing-thomas-cook-over-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/mother-suing-thomas-cook-over-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother suing Thomas Cook over ‘abduction’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Lois and Rose were staying at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mother, who says her five-year-old child was abducted from a holiday kids club in Turkey, is suing travel firm Thomas Cook over the incident.<\/p>\n

Janet Alexander, 46, from Inverness, said her daughter Rose was taken by a stranger from the club at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya.<\/p>\n

Ms Alexander said Rose was later found with a woman, walking near a main road within the hotel's grounds.<\/p>\n

Thomas Cook said it was investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

Ms Alexander said she was on a family break at Easter with Rose and her sister Lois when the incident happened.<\/p>\n

'Started running'<\/h2>\n

She said that she left Rose at the resort's supervised play area so that she could take Lois, aged nine, to a scuba diving lesson.<\/p>\n

However, when they returned an hour later, they discovered that Rose was gone.<\/p>\n

She said: "I was completely distraught, completely. In fact, there was chaos as everybody realised she was missing and started running around and people from around the pool started looking for her.<\/p>\n

"I was really quite frozen with fear."<\/p>\n

Lois was among those who joined the search. She said: "We couldn't find her and eventually we found her though. She was so happy she started crying."<\/p>\n

Image caption Janet said she was "frozen" when she discovered Rose was missing <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Image caption The girls were travelling to Turkey for a family holiday at Easter time <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rose was found unharmed 20 minutes later in the company of the mystery woman, who was wearing a hijab.<\/p>\n

The pair were led back to the hotel by a guest, but the woman was never arrested and later left the scene.<\/p>\n

Janet Alexander said: "Had Rose even followed her or whatever, you would take a child back, and in my heart I know that there was some sort of unpleasant motive behind this.<\/p>\n

"It was hundreds and hundreds of metres away that she had taken her."<\/p>\n

Safe and secure<\/h2>\n

Ms Alexander accused Thomas Cook of failing to respond to repeated calls for help during and after the incident.<\/p>\n

She added: "I think it's terrible that they would leave a family abandoned in a foreign country and not make sure, not only that we were ok, but that the current users of the facilities are ok as well, because obviously I felt the other children that were using the club were then at risk."<\/p>\n

Thomas Cook said: "We were very concerned to hear of this incident and we understand how distressing it must have been. <\/p>\n

"We are investigating thoroughly with the hotel to understand what happened and we will work with the hotel to make any required changes so that this can't happen again."<\/p>\n

The company said its customer welfare team had contacted Ms Alexander to offer support.<\/p>\n

The Royal Wings Hotel has denied that an abduction took place and maintained that the hotel's children's club was safe and secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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