Iam64
Rowantree
My father and his family endured comments, opinions, bigotry, abuse and worse in Germany in the 1930s.
Only then it was Jews to blame.
30 years ago, My daughter aged 7 phoned from her friends house, across the road, to say she was setting off home, a distance of a couple of hundred yards. They often played in each others houses, the system of landline calls worked. It meant a parent waiting to safely cross the main road through our village.
Dad heard her coming sobbing - a car had stopped, the driver and a passenger in the back seat. They encouraged her to leave her bike, they’d bring her home. She pedalled like fury, they kept stopping.
Yes I called the police, a female officer arrived in quick time. She recognised me as a trainer from her ‘communicating with children’ course the previous week. Relief all round. She was lovely with our little girl. Led her through, asked at one stage if she thought the might be asking the way somewhere. No said my child -they wanted to take me away from my mummy.
The officer told us we were the 5th attempt abduction. Same description if car, men, approach. It hadn’t been publicised despite chikdren from a number of local schools
That's horrific. Thank God your daughter had the presence of mind to keep pedalling. It made my blood run cold reading your story.
But no warnings to parents of the previous attempted abductions?
Has anything changed? What you are in effect saying is that this 'secrecy' has been going on for a long time.
I remember back in the 90s touring around Norway with my Swedish OH - we'd only known each other for a couple of months. We were in a remote area and passed a house where a very small child, a girl dressed only in shorts, was playing outside the boundaries of her garden, just sitting on the grass and digging around in the soil.
My OH suddenly stopped the car and muttered, "no, no, little girl, not even in Norway" sort of under his breath. I'd absolutely no idea what he was on about - but he told me to watch the child whilst he went and knocked on the door of the house, whereupon the mother came out and collected her.
He explained afterward that all over the world there were gangs of paedophiles and that it was a common misconception that paedophilia was a rarity in Scandinavian countries. His brother was a police interrogator in Sweden and had told him how rife it was in Scandi nations.
Highly unlikely they'd be roaming in remote areas, but who the heck knows.
