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A little girl sits on her own, sucking her thumb in the middle of a busy shopping centre
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looking scared and alone. So would you stop to see if she is okay? Well, more than 600 people didn't.
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As part of a TV experiment, two little girls were left alone on a London street to test
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the public's reaction to lost children. In the space of an hour only one person stopped
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to see if the child needed help - while 616 walked on by. Seven year old Uma was taken
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to Victoria Place shopping centre, next to Victoria Station and left on her own, but
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with tight security around her.
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Right, we've got a whole cluster of people.
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It's so hard to watch people just walk by and ignore her.
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Her five year old sister Maya also takes part in the experiment, and at one stage a couple
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find her in their path and simply walk either side without stopping.
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Their mother, who watched on from a short distance away, says it was shocking and heartbreaking
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to watch so many people ignore her children, when they were clearly alone and vulnerable.
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The experiment has highlighted the fact that many people now feel too scared of other people's
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perceptions to stop to help a young person, but the NSPCC says an adults responsibility
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to protect a child should supersede these concerns. Little Girl Lost: A Police 5 special
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airs on Tuesday, the 25th of March at 6.30pm on Channel 5.
