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Dawn's copycat fear.


Child-snatch mum Dawn Grif-fiths fears the kidnapper got the idea from Esther Rantzen Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born on 22 May 1940 (1940--) (age 67)) is an English journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's Life! .

Her TV talk show on how families cope when babies are stolen was aired just two days ago.

And Dawn, 28, one of the main guests, fears the woman who snatched the child from Basildon Basildon (bă`zəldən), city (1991 pop. 94,800) and district, Essex, E England. The southern portion is Basildon New Town, a planned community with many factories. Industries include light engineering, chemicals, printing, and clothing manufacturing.  Hospital tuned in then planned a copycat crime.

Dawn's mum Barbara Barbara

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 said last night: "It is a frightening coincidence Coincidence is the noteworthy alignment of two or more events or circumstances without obvious causal connection. The word is derived from the Latin co- ("in", "with", "together") and incidere ("to fall on").  when you think the programme went out on Wednesday and this woman snatched the baby on the Friday.

"It is the one thing that Dawn has said since hearing the news. She is concerned that this lady got the sick idea from the programme.

"It has certainly crossed all of our minds that she had been watching the programme. It does make you wonder.

"You'd have thought that a show like that, which showed the distress and trauma of the victims, would have put people off from inflicting such pain on families.

"However, if someone is already inclined to act in a certain way then a programme like that could just send them over the edge. There's nothing you can do.

"You can bet your bottom dollar that a failed relationship lies at the bottom of this case in Basildon and that the woman is very, very upset."

l Last night the Portia Trust, which supports women who have abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point  babies, warned of more copycat child-snatchings.
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Author:Dennis, Steve
Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Dec 6, 1997
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