I have a son, and I've been through an experience where he went missing for a few hours. He was over at a nearby neighbor's house and NO ONE EVEN THOUGHT that a six year old boy should go the fuck home or AT LEAST CALL HIS PARENTS as the clock ticked towards 10:30 PM.
Oh you'd better believe I beat his ass for not coming home before the street lights came on.

I had cops searching for him all over the neighborhood...even the cops got in the neighbor's ass for not having the common sense to AT LEAST walk over to my house to see if it was okay for him to play with their children so late. He doesn't leave the house now without a cell phone. If I call it and he doesn't answer, I'll put his ass on punishment for the entire Summer. I won't go through that experience again.
With that being said...
I'm sure this happens in other countries as well, but the press couldn't care less if a little black or latino kid goes missing. No one cares when it's white trash either. Oh but when a middle/upper class white child goes missing....shit the US would pull soldiers outta Iraq to track down that child. A black child just went missing in Philadelphia last week, and I'd bet ANYTHING that story didn't make it past the local news. Similar incidents have occured in NY over the past few months. ANytime a Puerto Rican baby goes missing the story gets aired for 3-4 days. If the child isn't found the story gets pushed back to page 30 of the New York Times...or at some time right before the weather report. It's truly fucked up.
In fact a few years ago a little black girl in Philadelphia was abducted, and she managed to ESCAPE ON HER OWN after tearing off the tape from her hands and breaking out of a basement window. That story received press for about 3 days. I can't name names, but I can remember the faces of at least a dozen white children who went missing, and the press REFUSED to let you forget the name of the school they attended, their birthdates, the names of their great uncles...shit is really twisted here in the states. Lke I said I'm sure it's like that everywhere.
Anyway I hope the little girl gets found....even if her parents really were THAT Stupid/Careless/Reckless to leave her in a hotel room alone to go out eating....?????
Whatever Doesn't Kill You, Only Makes You Stranger.