One more time a predator gets away from punishment! It was on the news tonight: a 9 year old boy was brutally raped by a predator and now this criminal is walking free on the streets again!
The boy was selling magazines for his school door to door. No names were revealed but does it really matter? It could have been your child or mine! It is an every day new in our communities, one more child, one more life ruined for the victims and their families.
What is it going to take to stop these monsters from hurting our precious children? No precautions are enough to prevent a tragedy like that family on the news tonight. Some predators even have the audacity of entering the victim's homes to abduct them!
The truth is that no matter how many arrests are made, as long as there are individuals out there that are dedicated to free these criminals from punishment placing them on the streets again, our kids will not be safe and parents will never have peace. Maybe if we all come together something will be done!
A crime like this is evil and it is committed against the purest and innocent human being: the same children that look up to adults for their protection and that includes our justice system.
We have come to the point where no child is safe on the streets and the trust has been lost for ever.
Here are some tips for parents:
- Do not expose your children sending photos on the Internet unless is a secure site.
- Don't let your children walk by themselves, even if it is a short distance. Watching them from the distance won't do any good if a car stops next to your kid and force him in.
- Is a general rule that most abducted and abused children are the victims of individuals inside their circle of trust: neighbors, relatives or even family members.
Teach them to trust no one! Especially if they seem to nice to them or they try to hard to gain their trust. If you know someone that insists to much to watch your kids either they are lonely or something is terribly wrong. When is about your kids safety please DO NOT TRUST ANYONE!
-Never send your children to sell nothing door to door by themselves. Always make sure they are accompanied by you or they go with a group of other children. Predators don't like many kids together, they prefer a lonely child as the perfect pray.
- Build a close relationship with your kids and open good communication channels advising them that "Whatever it is they can tell you".
- Create a password that only you and your kids would know in case of emergencies, and teach them not to get rides from no one without calling you first to tell you who they are with and where they are going. Tell them that who ever tells them: "Don't tell your parents" is not good and they need to get away from that person immediately!
- Don't let your kids go to sleepover anywhere unless your are 100% sure of the integrity of the people they are going to. The best place for the kids to sleep is in their own beds!
- Frequently check the predators pictured list in your area and show their photos to your children and their friend's parents. They need to know that predators don't look weird, dirty or ugly. Predators can be men and women of all ages and races, they live among us and they look just like everyone else.