Your first grader gets permission to go to the bathroom down the hall during the middle of class. He makes his way there, just as he has numerous times before. Nothing seems out of place, nothing hints at the danger waiting for him on the other side of the bathroom entrance...
It's not the class bully waiting to steal his lunch money. It's not a poorly mopped floor still slippery enough to cause him to fall. It's not even the thousands of germs left from uncounted numbers of dirty hands touching everything in sight. Instead, it's a child rapist who has made his way unnoticed into the building, waiting quietly for a child to appear.
Hard to believe? Completely impossible? I know, it could never happen, right? Well friends, think again.
The young boy and his attempted capture were just feet from a vehicle, when the boy was able to kick him- and make a successful dash back into the school, saving him from whatever fate the rapist had planned for him.
While we would all like to believe that this story could never replay itself in our children's school- it might be a good time to think about when the last time you were stopped in the school and questioned about who you were, and why you were there by school employees.
Categories: predators, molesters, school,
It's not the class bully waiting to steal his lunch money. It's not a poorly mopped floor still slippery enough to cause him to fall. It's not even the thousands of germs left from uncounted numbers of dirty hands touching everything in sight. Instead, it's a child rapist who has made his way unnoticed into the building, waiting quietly for a child to appear.
Hard to believe? Completely impossible? I know, it could never happen, right? Well friends, think again.
A first-grade boy told family members that on Jan. 12 he was in a bathroom when a man came underneath a stall and grabbed him by his arm, choked him and raped him.
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The man then grabbed the boy by the neck and dragged him outside the school, the boy's aunt said.
The young boy and his attempted capture were just feet from a vehicle, when the boy was able to kick him- and make a successful dash back into the school, saving him from whatever fate the rapist had planned for him.
While we would all like to believe that this story could never replay itself in our children's school- it might be a good time to think about when the last time you were stopped in the school and questioned about who you were, and why you were there by school employees.
Categories: predators, molesters, school,