comment #1
It requires courage, like the author of that article blog to even write about her personal experience..very chilling.

comment #2
My parents tried to protect us....none of us were allowed to go to friend's sleepovers when we were growing up. It was because of the fear of abuse for their children, etc. We were each told this. That included my brother also.

And I didn't try to give reasons to friends why I couldn't go. I simply mumbled that I wasn't allowed to go. Fortunately I never lost friends over this nor did I ever get any peer pressure for not joining the fun. It was just me, feeling abit left out.

I know, I know..amazing.

comment #3
When my partner's daughter was 15 yrs. old, she was approached by a guy, a stranger in a mall. He gave her his phone number and said she looked good enough to be a model. (Seriously the young woman is not at all your Elle model look-alike. In jest she jokingly blames her father for giving her a lousy nose.) She told her mother (his ex-wife) who was alarmed and consulted her ex (my partner) by phone. Thank goodness, it was 2 divorced parents always were generally parallel on problems of child-rearing and discipline to find solutions.

It was felt the best thing was the mother accompany daughter to meet this guy in the shopping mall. And nothing in the end, came out of that. The guy disappeared from the scene thereafter.

Now, if daughter hadn't even told either of her parents about this creepy dude....

comment #4
When I was working for the courts, there was a highly publicized case where 2 girls were raped, murdered, etc. by a handsome guy and his lovely looking blonde girlfriend. The news media circus went on and on about it nationally. Also alot of discussion on juror stress and ..speculation on the stress on the presiding judge because of the graphic nature of the evidence (video and other stuff..).

We knew working inside the courthouse,..in the judges chambers area that was sealed off to the public, that outside there were large crowds outside waiting to hear yet another statement from the lawyers, etc.

There were attempts to make a movie interpretation of all this. I can't remember what happened in the end...but it was just sickening the amount of bizarre curiosity about the case, the killers, etc.