Will My Kids be kidnapped?
on the 15th - the day after I posted this post - a known paedophile who preys on little girls was let loose in the city we live in after serving 9 years. It is 'a matter of time until he' ...strikes again, but the law says he has served his time? Really? I wonder how the judge or jury would feel if it was their little daughter or granddaughter next eh...? Suddenly things become 'personal' pretty fast when that happens and occassionally justice, instead of the 'law' is applied with the victims and not the perpetrator coming first - the 'laws' on the imprisonment of paedophiles should be reviewed, and soon - thats mho anyway...<./ed>
\Will my kids be kidnapped?
...the worst fear of any parent....
...... Could my kids be kidnapped... Might my kids be kidnapped... How can I stop it... Can I? Why?
Well the latter is usally pretty easy to answer - there are alot of damaged people out there. It is very easy to judge a 'kidnapper' if you aren't one and came from a healthy family environment. Even most people who had a *bad* childhood, will work out to be relatively normal people, but there are many who won't... even many who did have a home life we can understand as *civilised* people.
Think of the atrocities of the second world war in Germany... everyone - literally - was terrified. there were Jews turning Jews in - their father/husband/child's life was on the line and they had to provide a 'quota' of other Jews to be picked up or they were taken, with their family. The whole country was ruled quite simply by fear. And for 7 years it 'worked' for the 'cleansers' or Nazis... until the allies won. Thank God. But there has never been an explanation for the allowance of terror on that scale. and it may happen again - it wasn't that long ago.
Many people are in that frame of fear, with 'needs' we can't understand - and really have no desire to understand. What happened with Shawn Hornbeck? His parents seemed to be (As a mom I am going to say WERE) devastated when he disappeared 5 years ago - to the extent that they both chucked their jobs and started a foundation (GOOD FOR YOU). I can't for a moment believe that he was either an abused child or a denied child. So what did this man have that made him so appealing to this youngster? (But even with the return of Shawn... he's been gone from his folks for a third of his life - what did this man turn him into? tell him? educate him to be?) That must be terrifying for his parents...Who will love him regardless, because that is what we do... Thank God he was returned - many haven't been... It a great foundation.
There are questions that need to be answered but never will be... in the same vein, two 10 year olds stopped at their teachers house in the UK 6 years ago, and were both murdered by her boyfriend, the garden caretaker for the local college... why? No real answers...
These are more local incidents and don't touch on the awful reality of child pornography, and the sex slave trade - all of which are frighteningly real...
So what do you do? The answer is simply - the best you can. Warn them, speak to them at age appropriate level... never go into strange houses, never speak to strangers, never take food from srangers, etc etc... modified to suit the age group..
I am in my early 30's, my mom spoke to me on the phone the other day and warned me - married with three kids, but concerned... many of you will know of the organ transplant scheme that has been going on in SA and Australia and possibly the US for the past 10 years... apart from date rape drugs popped into unwitting drinks by personable good looking strangers, there is the added possibility that the drugged person may be operated on and have their liver/kidney removed..
The first case I am aware of (and this if from memory) was in around 1995, a chap in Australia woke up in a bath of ice after a night out with a heater in the room near his hands with the note on the mirror and a cell phone (new) next to him telling him to call the ambulance services as his liver had been removed for sale and he better not move or he would die. .. the mind boggles at this kind of crime... they didn't want to kill him, but left him without a liver in a bath in the hope that he would wake up and make the call... the operation of removal was done my a highly able surgeon...
Many young men and women (14-+) are captured in the same drug manufactured way even if they have never taken drugs by a mickey finn - someone can slip a drug into a glass of Coke or Water... the drugs apparently don't have a significant taste, and they are just as deadly in any form... date rape is becoming serious.... look at googles results for the term 'date rape'... most of the results contain the word 'drugs'.
For parent of younger children, attempt to avoid kidnapping and disappearance in three easy steps:
1) offer your children respect, responsibility and trust from an early age and discipline them accordingly;
2) provide them with continuous guidance on what to do with strangers, unusual scenarios and give them a game plan to utilise.. e.g. tell your child you will always get him/her from school, and if you can't you will call the school and speak to them personally with instructions (most schools are very amenable to this), or if you can't speak to them directly, tell the child you will pass a coded message to them... i.e. 'Mom can't get you honey, but Mr Richards (you know him - he's xxxx) will bring you home, and you need to get some OJ from the shops and say Hi to Mrs Freeman'
3) Keep in touch with what is going on in the world and make sure your child is ready for any eventuality, and that your child knows what your reaction to it would be... even if they have a faint idea, they are pretty perceptive, and as they get older, the chances are the will distinguish truth from fiction.
4) Trust in the Lord and Pray for His guidance in how you bring up yourt kids, how you communicate with them and how you disipline them.
A Word from God: Matthew 18:1-6
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
And said,
Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
\Will my kids be kidnapped?
...the worst fear of any parent....
...... Could my kids be kidnapped... Might my kids be kidnapped... How can I stop it... Can I? Why?
Well the latter is usally pretty easy to answer - there are alot of damaged people out there. It is very easy to judge a 'kidnapper' if you aren't one and came from a healthy family environment. Even most people who had a *bad* childhood, will work out to be relatively normal people, but there are many who won't... even many who did have a home life we can understand as *civilised* people.
Think of the atrocities of the second world war in Germany... everyone - literally - was terrified. there were Jews turning Jews in - their father/husband/child's life was on the line and they had to provide a 'quota' of other Jews to be picked up or they were taken, with their family. The whole country was ruled quite simply by fear. And for 7 years it 'worked' for the 'cleansers' or Nazis... until the allies won. Thank God. But there has never been an explanation for the allowance of terror on that scale. and it may happen again - it wasn't that long ago.
Many people are in that frame of fear, with 'needs' we can't understand - and really have no desire to understand. What happened with Shawn Hornbeck? His parents seemed to be (As a mom I am going to say WERE) devastated when he disappeared 5 years ago - to the extent that they both chucked their jobs and started a foundation (GOOD FOR YOU). I can't for a moment believe that he was either an abused child or a denied child. So what did this man have that made him so appealing to this youngster? (But even with the return of Shawn... he's been gone from his folks for a third of his life - what did this man turn him into? tell him? educate him to be?) That must be terrifying for his parents...Who will love him regardless, because that is what we do... Thank God he was returned - many haven't been... It a great foundation.
There are questions that need to be answered but never will be... in the same vein, two 10 year olds stopped at their teachers house in the UK 6 years ago, and were both murdered by her boyfriend, the garden caretaker for the local college... why? No real answers...
These are more local incidents and don't touch on the awful reality of child pornography, and the sex slave trade - all of which are frighteningly real...
So what do you do? The answer is simply - the best you can. Warn them, speak to them at age appropriate level... never go into strange houses, never speak to strangers, never take food from srangers, etc etc... modified to suit the age group..
I am in my early 30's, my mom spoke to me on the phone the other day and warned me - married with three kids, but concerned... many of you will know of the organ transplant scheme that has been going on in SA and Australia and possibly the US for the past 10 years... apart from date rape drugs popped into unwitting drinks by personable good looking strangers, there is the added possibility that the drugged person may be operated on and have their liver/kidney removed..
The first case I am aware of (and this if from memory) was in around 1995, a chap in Australia woke up in a bath of ice after a night out with a heater in the room near his hands with the note on the mirror and a cell phone (new) next to him telling him to call the ambulance services as his liver had been removed for sale and he better not move or he would die. .. the mind boggles at this kind of crime... they didn't want to kill him, but left him without a liver in a bath in the hope that he would wake up and make the call... the operation of removal was done my a highly able surgeon...
Many young men and women (14-+) are captured in the same drug manufactured way even if they have never taken drugs by a mickey finn - someone can slip a drug into a glass of Coke or Water... the drugs apparently don't have a significant taste, and they are just as deadly in any form... date rape is becoming serious.... look at googles results for the term 'date rape'... most of the results contain the word 'drugs'.
For parent of younger children, attempt to avoid kidnapping and disappearance in three easy steps:
1) offer your children respect, responsibility and trust from an early age and discipline them accordingly;
2) provide them with continuous guidance on what to do with strangers, unusual scenarios and give them a game plan to utilise.. e.g. tell your child you will always get him/her from school, and if you can't you will call the school and speak to them personally with instructions (most schools are very amenable to this), or if you can't speak to them directly, tell the child you will pass a coded message to them... i.e. 'Mom can't get you honey, but Mr Richards (you know him - he's xxxx) will bring you home, and you need to get some OJ from the shops and say Hi to Mrs Freeman'
3) Keep in touch with what is going on in the world and make sure your child is ready for any eventuality, and that your child knows what your reaction to it would be... even if they have a faint idea, they are pretty perceptive, and as they get older, the chances are the will distinguish truth from fiction.
4) Trust in the Lord and Pray for His guidance in how you bring up yourt kids, how you communicate with them and how you disipline them.
A Word from God: Matthew 18:1-6
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
And said,
Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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