The comments on here about sexual predators is crazed nonsense. Our “Stranger Danger” fascination is out of control. What else would this woman have done, “Sorry brat, I have to shop”? Yes, there are some f'ed up people out there, but every subway platform full of people isn't chocked full child rapists itching to abduct. In fact, the vast majority of child molestation is done by people who know the children. I got lost plenty of times as a child, and there was always a handful of strangers there to help. There are actual deep animal instinctual biological triggers built into the human brain that compel us to help anxious children (a social specie/group preserving instinct.) All the comments on here from people who think the child was a breath away from the lurking predator's grasp, scare me and are a testament to the manufactured illogical delusion persisting today. Get a grip people.