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last new years morning my hubby nipped out to my daughters. on the way home he passed a young girl.16/17…………..skimpy top.short skirt bare legs.crying her eyes out and shivering with cold. he stopped and asked if she was ok. she had been to a party night b4….got drunk and gone back to a house with a load of other teenagers. woke up nxt morning.hadnt a clue were she was.no money or phone.plus terrified cos she knew her parents would be going mad. he asked her adress which was a few miles from us. then told her she could trust him and if she wanted he would take her home. she was so scared all she wanted to do was get home to her mum. when they arrived the police were on there way..her parents were frantic. they couldnt thank him enough. only thing that worried me was……i know my hubby is 100% trustworthy we have a daughter. but the fact a young girl was so scared that she got into the car wanting to get home. it could have been anyone.she might never have seen her mum again. no matter how much we impress on our kids to be careful………..when they are cold frightened or just plain drunk…….we have to be careful whether to stop and help.or just drive by.
@*Peco wrote:
I agree Squeezy, but I forgot my mobile phone. If I’d had it with me, I’d have used it, but I’d have to have rang the cops well away from the kids as a lot of the teenagers that hang out there know me by sight now. If any of them got arrested, they’d be watching out for me next time I came by.
Yeah – you have to be very careful of retaliation – I wouldn’t have phoned right in front of them either – you never know what kids are like these days (Look at all the ‘happy slapping’ incidents) :shock:
Pco- don’t think you could have done much more really though you did more than many would
Interesting though that most of the posts on this thread relate to teenagers, incapacitated through drink and drugs (and yes, there once went all of us), and vulnerable yet still putting themselves in those situations. How do you protect your children as they grow up yet still give them the freedom to learn and develop?
Maybe we all think “it’ll never happen to us”, unfortuantely that isn’t the case.
Like I said earlier, there was a case of two young girls being sexually assaulted recently up here, and I’d been reading that in the papers just minutes before I went to the park. I guess it was still in the back of my mind, making me think hard about this incident, but so too was this newspaper report in the Glasgow Herald, one which is absolutley appalling.
You can’t get the full articles online from the Herald, but read this BBC Scotland report, and be sickened. It just shows that kids aren’t even safe with their own family and in their own home.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4743354.stm
Nine years isn’t enough, with good behaviour the guy will be out in 5 or 6. It doesn’t matter a damn that this guy didn’t know his step-daughter was dying. It’s so heartbreaking, and though I don’t know all the medical details, you can’t rule out that this scum-bag might have actually contributed to her death by simply moving her.
I feel the same way LG. As a man, I’m very wary of what people might think if I was to help a child, for example, if they were lost. You’ve always got to think to yourself…….”How might my actions look to others”?
I remember as you say, a few years back, when the real extent of paedophilia was coming to the consciousness of the public, stories were breaking almost weekly. I even knew a woman who said her husband had become too scared to give his kids a bath in case people found out and got the wrong idea.
That story link was very distressing I know. Maybe I should have posted this thread in the serious forum, or maybe not posted it at all.
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