An 11-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Bolton with a "substantial" amount of money has been found "safe and well" in London, police have said.
Fatuma Kadir's parents are said to be "incredibly relieved" after they had appealed for her to return home quickly.
Greater Manchester Police have said they are now working to reunite Fatuma with her family.
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I’m missing something here – why did she run away? She ran away from home with all that cash and hid out a few days in London? I feel like there’s a part of the story we’re missing. I’m happy she’s safe however. Cheers
@Yvonne Howarth at 11 come on now thats crazy
@Yvonne Howarth Because she is Muslim or of colour?
@dev sip frrr I swear to god
😊😊 mm p
Bro she in the same highschool as me
Wow well this story exploded onto my news feed! I didn’t know she was missing, but a very suspicious story.
@Facts don’t care about your feelings , YouTube ! hilarious 😐
She was just sightseeing, she even bought a new vest to go sightseeing .
@Bomb Lol – What 11 year old is into “sight seeing”? Lol.
@Facts don’t care about your feelings , YouTube ! that adjective was purposely used, sir 👍
@1salahudin dont fight hate with hate bro
The strangest story. Glad she’s found. Hope she can visit London safely some day
Yes
She’s a danger.
@Lewis to who?
@Jessica I agree
Hello Jessica
How strange that she didn’t discuss it with her family as a day out, even as an adult I wouldn’t travel anywhere late at night on my own. I hope the police and her doctor will arrange for a good Psychiatrist. It’s all very weird.
It reminds me of that McDonalds boy driver.
She needs some one way truly care for her
Well she seems in her right mind. She succeeded in her plans to go “sight seeing”, and she managed to convince others she was older. She knew what she doing, so I doubt she needs a psychiatrist. I think her home life and parents need investigating though. Perhaps her story about sight seeing was to protect her parents, and she was really trying to get away from them..
@lozzymagoo she’s clever than the person who said “she needs a psychiatrist”
In the world of things that don’t add up, this takes top seat.
@Vaultboy101 grow up u patty
It should take top seat, it’s British news, not the rest of the world. Glad she’s safe.
@Phallo Peon Choobs yes it does
@Yukie Abe so your saying her parents will let her marry who she wants ???
Isis bride like others
not even the explanations sound truthful enough as innocent as it is put, glad she is safe and well.
Nah, I’m not buying this BS
@Ritik PAL yeah and the version they’re saying sounds sooooo simple?? An 11 year old wanted to see the sights of London so instead of asking her family for a day out she stole a bunch of cash and managed to sneak out the house on Thursday night (a school night) and travel hours to get to London at 1am and is found on the Saturday by Police? Sooooo simple
Questioning a young lady ( hard to tell ones age in certain attired ) about where she is going might be considered R-ist these days. Unless she was crying and in distress.
@Micky Boy McCoy it’s the story from the family and how it’s being reported that’s strange
This doesn’t add up, she’s running away from something or someone?
Or going to meet someone…
Maybe she was to marry a 54years old man🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️🤸🏾♀️
Agreed I don’t buy the story that she just wanted to sightsee and look into the fashion industry, is it western views against family I don’t know but there is a lot we don’t know that the police and social services need to find the answers to
@Wacerah Chege r u feeling alright u lil prik
@Wacerah Chege nice grammar.
This is totally bizarre. Something just doesn’t feel right here.
@Boarbot 78 agree!!!
@Bear Or she was escaping noncing by her father back home…
@Bud ding Bud bud his dad is 🤣🤣
@Haggis Muncher possible but the legal way is more than effective than this, proven by previous cases.
@Bear Not quite.
Bringing shame on to your family is punishable by death in Islam.
It’s no unheard of for Muslim girls to run away from ultra conservative Muslim parents.
I would check her socials and make sure she wasn’t going to meet someone she DOESN’T know that’s SCARY!
Yes 100%
@MadFreakChloe Very unlikely. The obvious seems likely, that she was curious about the world.
Poor girl.
@SugarTomAppleRoger https://youtu.be/ZzsHFgWs-KU
@SugarTomAppleRoger It’s a snake pit. That’s all she needs to know
reminds me of another story a few years back where a girl’s parents said she seemed “normal” and had no idea why she would run away, only for everyone to find out they’d been abusing her and eventually killed her in an honour killing…. she didn’t just run away for sight seeing.
@sarah wass it’s illegal but it still happens and it has to stop. Breaking through the wall of secrecy that surrounds communities is impossible.
Exatly i rember that.
@Cheryl Parker yes I know it still happens I was watching a program the other day about it really sad it still goes on to this day 😪
@Cheryl Parker what’s medieval is judging people by what they look like
@Shakib Al Hasan No. What’s medieval is ignoring the reasons why girls and women run away.
I suspect there’s a bit more to this story than they’re telling us. Nobody runs away from home just to do sight seeing
I mean, a lot of these would be considered as privacy matters. For all we know, it could be things related to FGM with cultures bringing this up as a special thing.
@Struggle Snuggle again, why would they? She is 11
Running away from home to go “sight-seeing” in London’s about as convincing as going to Salisbury to see its “famous” Cathedral
@Chris Taylor 11 is the age of consent across the Muslim world.
@Struggle Snuggle exactly. If the media even get a sniff that there is something in that theory (arranged marriage or underage marriage etc) they likely will drop the story. Don’t want to put Islam in a bad light and potentially offend any fundamentalists, or add any fuel to the fire to the public perception that issues like FGM, arranged marriage, underage marriage, cousin marriage or honor killings still happen with a disconcerting amount of frequency.
theres a lot missing from this story but im glad she is safe
@Kevin B Sorry for the assumption. It’s just that your downbeat tone was similar to those types of comments.
@jack watkins that’s why I said it. I agree ☝🏾
@wakenbaker-uk maybe 🤷🏾♀️ who knows
@Istaahil Ismail No it doesnt…what rubbish. imo… There might have been some problems in the household and she wanted to get away for the day.
Amazing she is Safe 🙏 please help me
“Going to visit her aunt in tower bridge?” Very convincing.
racis
@Rakanishu how is that racist
Glad she’s been located and hopefully is now safe.
She lives right near me she went to my primary
Let’s hope she hasn’t just been taken right back to what she was running from in the first place
@That CarGuy She is more likely to be radicalised by extremists in islam then a “white” dude abducting her.
@hilary let’s hope so 🥴
@healing hArt indeed. I don’t want to imagine the poor girl’s despair if she does.
An 11 year old travels to London with loads of money books into a hotel without showing proof of age
IM SURE SHE DID
Maybe she bumped into trump in to loby
@Mother God welcome to london. No one gives about any other,
@marc coffey The alternative? She was trying to get into Hogwarts.. obviously.
@marc coffey why didnt an adult question where her parents were
@Mrozek party?? Boyfriend?? Shes 11 u weirdo
Imagine how many people walked past her without knowing she could be in danger, Its worrying that she got so far without being stopped tbh!Glad she’s been found safe🙌🏼
Imagine some ” islamaphobe” daring to ask her a question?
She’s in more danger now that she’s home…
4yrs ago I was in a women’s refuge for domestic violence victims and a young lady arrived fleeing for her life from her very controlling,abusive family and community. Thankfully she’s free now and iD changed. It makes me wonder if this girl was also trying to escape…as I don’t buy the story at all
Sadly nothing on our screen is what it seems.
This story has more holes than Swiss cheese 🧀
“11 year old girl steals wods of cash and runs away at night, travelling hours alone to go ‘sight seeing’ in London at 1am.” Umm And we’re meant to believe that? I have many questions for the parents.
Yup – call social services
@Charley Fone good idea