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JK
Top Member
USA
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 Posted - 09/18/2005 : 12:47:07 PM
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Been receiving requests for information from TD's and parents, concerning the risk to children left unsupervised at bus stops - specifically the risk of abduction.
Here's a brief background on this issue
Children in big cities, small communities and in rural areas are as vulnerable to sexual predator abduction as would be children going about anywhere else in America these days. It takes less than five-seconds for a predator to abduct a child from the child's own driveway, according to Child Lures Prevention (childlures.org). Child predators looking for less risk have figured out that school bus stops make for ideal hunting grounds. The ACLU has defended the rights of repeat child predators to be near children, watch them and think their thoughts concerning what they would like to do to a targeted child as long as the repeat offender does not act on those thoughts. To make matters worse the ACLU wants children's right to sexual privacy lowered to age thirteen, while current US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bater Ginsburg, said she wants children's right to sexual privacy lowered to age twelve. Either of these ideas made law would create a huge gap in parental rights to intervene in their children's sexual inclinations. As many as half the sexual offenders in many communities are unaccounted for, leaving a large gap in the monitoring of these offenders. Where parents are able to accept our Nation is moving in an direction detrimental to children's safety, my recommendation would be that parents show up at their children's school bus stops in numbers adequate to deter any potential child predator's interests.
A predator warning ad, available free from 2safeschools Yellow Tin Can website, makes an important point: "Child predators must not be the only adults watching over children walking to and from their school bus stops."
The ad is available free for most uses from the link below. We expect to have high density (2+MB) photos available on CD later this year.
FREE School Bus Safety Ads
Free to use at websites, in newsletters, memos, the local press, letters to parents and more. Note that the photos area is under revision - The school bus safety ads area is now available. This is a very popular Website. If you can't get in bookmark the page and try again later.
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Edited by - JK on 09/18/2005 1:21:38 PM
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Child predators watching kids at bus stops?
