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Hi all,
Just wanted to let you all know about a very scary experience we had today!!
I will probably be very dramatic but feel it is necessary as the situation could have turned out very badly. No-one wants to think it can happen to us, but clearly it very nearly did.
Whilst we live in a nice little safe community, we need to be vigilant and teach our children to be so. We also need to learn about the importance of not becoming complacent when we believe a situation looks wrong!!
Today, we decided to go for a nice walk in Centennial Park around 4pm. Alex (6) had his bike and Maddie (3) had her scooter. Paul and myself were walking. Alex decided that he needed to go a little faster than us and went onto the jogging path. We both said at many stages that we were concerned we couldn’t see him anymore, but believed he was just being silly in his 6-year old sense that he went riding off without us.
As I’m sure many of you know Centennial Park has many roads and lanes. As we stopped at each, and couldn’t see Alex anywhere, we were unsure of whether he would cross a road or follow the path. At this point we were concerned but also cursing him for being so silly for riding on so far ahead.
We were hoping not to make too much of it, but were concerned so Paul cut into one of the paths on the inside of the park, whilst I continued on the periphery. At this point still we were hoping not to think the worst but that he had not got lost and was hysterical somewhere…
We ended up walking the entire park, trying not to panic. We met back at the car, hopeful that Alex may have had sense and stopped there. No such luck….
At this stage we called Centennial Park Rangers. They sent patrols out but said to immediately call the police. Nothing like that suggestion to quicken the heart of a worried parent.
I decided to walk through the park again while Paul drove. All this time I was looking for Alex, his bike, anything…..Not at any stage could I admit to myself what could be the worst possibility….
After walking for about 7 minutes (what seemed like an hour) Paul called to say he had found Alex!! Thank God!! “Is he ok??”….
Well everyone… as it turns out he is ok and that is the most important thing. What is the scariest thing about this is that when Paul found him he was walking with his bike, hysterically crying, with a 25ish, overweight, dungeons and dragons looking kind of guy next to him.. Paul shouted Alex’s name at which point the guy ran under the fence at the park. When Paul called the police back to say we had found him they said they already had at least 6 patrols in the park, and the fact that it looked like an attempted abduction made them very concerned. At one point there was 15 patrols in the park and a police helicopter looking for this pervert.
I say pervert because he clearly was not just having a chat with Alex, and this is my concern to all parents out there.
Alex said that when he went riding his bike at first some guy ran next to him and said “Do you want a race?’ Of course Alex said yes! This is the stage where we said “look silly boy has gone off….
The police now believe that this jogger may have been a part of the attempt to get Alex away from his parents’ view…
The jogger stopped the race and said he needed to get into his car, at which stage Alex didn’t know where we were, or where he was for that matter…
He continued riding, hoping to catch up with us.
Apparently he just kept riding until ‘his bottom got sore’ so he got off his bike and started walking.
At this stage a man approached him and started chatting:
“Are you lost?
“I can help you”
“I know your Mummy and Daddy and they said I should take you to them”
“I know their names…”
“If you come with me to my car I have some lollies and we’ll go see your Mummy and Daddy”
”What school do you go to”………………..
Everyone please I urge you, please, take this to heart.
Apparently he told Alex he knew his parents’ names and Alex said “Can you guess them?. Clearly not. He also tried to hold his hand which is very scary. The scariest thing of all is that it was a public holiday, and there were a million people around.
THE PONT IS THERE WAS A HYSTERICAL 6-YEAR OLD AND NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON INTERVENED!!
Paul did say when he finally found him that a few people were kind of looking like it wasn’t right – BUT NO-ONE SPOKE UP”. No-one at any stage said to Alex “ are you ok? Is this your Daddy?”
The police took this very seriously. They had 15 patrol cars in Centennial Park and a helicopter flying over the park to try and find the guy. Again, I told you this would be dramatic, but another minute or so and he may have been somewhere we could not imagine in our worst nightmare.
So, our message to everyone is to teach your kids . Not only say “Stranger Danger”, but also to ask for help. Clearly Alex was concerned a while beforehand, but while he knew he shouldn’t talk to strangers or go off with any one, he couldn’t ask all those people around for help. He knows my phone number off by heart and he knows what he should do but he couldn’t because he wasn’t old enough or he lacked confidence or he thought he might be in trouble if he talked to a stranger.
Thankfully, not just what we have taught him but what the school has taught him made him aware enough to know it is not right.
Most of all, we ask that if you ever see a child who looks uncomfortable, or ill at ease, ASK THEM IF THIS IS YOUR MUMMY OR DADDY. Honestly there were probably 200 hundred people in the park today who possibly saw Alex and did nothing.
Clearly this other man was not his father, and while Paul said he did feel that there were some people around looking concerned, imagine if it was your child. I think we have to stop being concerned about ‘interfering’ and start being concerned about who could possibly interfere with our children.
When the police realised there was possibly a missing child, and potentially a paedophile around, there were 15 patrol cars in the park and a police helicopter scouring the area for this a##hole. I would like to say that the police, when called, responded with an amazing pace- honestly they were there in about 4 minutes) and came from Bondi. Maroubra, and all of the Eastern Suburbs once as child was involved.
They take it seriously and we need to as well. The police, to their credit, did an amazing job and are following up with a paediatric detective.
Considering the very close call we had today, and realising that we possibly had a minute or two before a potential tragedy, makes us realise that we are all too complacent in coming forward.
So please everyone, we are all too concerned about looking like idiots, but who cares – for our children’s sakes.
I have forwarded this onto anyone I have e—mail addresses for but please forward onto any parents you know…
I told you I would be dramatic!! Let’s get some action..
Best regards,
Jenny McGrath
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Terrible!
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在哪里都一样，不能让孩子离开自己的视线。
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恩，警惕
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GPS定位
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顶起，谢谢楼主提醒！
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what's the relation between the pervert and the jogger?
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不管什么时候，小孩子一定要在父母的掌控范围之内
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太恐怖了，centennial park离我家很近，也常去。。。
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这么可怕，真的要小心啊
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真吓人
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要看住自己孩子
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在哪都不能让宝宝离开自己的视线范围，，，太恐怖了
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孩子还是孩子，大人的责任重哦
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谢谢分享。我有时也很疏忽，在商店里自己走在前面，让我的宝宝一个人走在后面。上次还碰到一个好心的老爷爷停下来还准备问我家宝宝爸爸妈妈在哪里，后来他看到我走过来，问我她是不是我宝宝。真的该警醒了。
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哪都要小心啊
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看着心跳一直加速！
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今天上班一大早，同事就发了这个邮件给我，太吓人了。
真的是一点都不能偷懒，时刻都得警惕。这个时代，变态的人太多了。
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太可怕了！
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Mark, 回家看
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这个孩子真幸运，出事以前被家人找到了。。。
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太恐怖了
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OMG!每次看到这种新闻就觉得好恐怖啊！
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时刻警惕啊！
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看的揪心，在哪里都不能大意
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真的是好长的信啊，这个妈妈写信还有一个呼吁是，“大家如果看到一个小孩跟着一个奇怪的大人，而小朋友看起来很不舒服，很难过的样子，请上前问一问，这是你的爸爸/妈妈吗？”
因为当时公园里还有很多人，不止一个人看到她儿子推着车一路嚎哭跟着这个奇怪的胖个像个大钟一样的凶恶的男人走在一起，但没有一个人过问一下。
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好恐怖啊，还以为这种事情在国内要小心，今天早上我妈妈还和我说一定要看好自己的孩子，那时还说妈妈瞎操心，看起来真的是哪里都一样 ，一定要提高警惕啊。
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带孩子外出，一定要仔细谨慎，而且不要把自己的孩子托付给朋友照看，人再多再挤不能偷懒，一定要自己看好。
我妈（75岁外婆）带我女儿在假期去奥林匹克公园看Easter Show。人潮汹涌，我的一个朋友有2个女儿，另一个朋友有一个女儿，他们都怕挤不愿自己进展馆，托我妈照看下，我妈一个老太太要看4个女孩儿。看完表演后，人流一股涌向出口，一股涌向入口，还有很多乱走的人。我妈被人流一冲眼一花，和我女儿失散了，剩下3个女孩儿又走散了1个。急的老太太浑身大汗，关照剩下2个女孩儿站在柱子旁死都不准走开，然后她一边流着眼泪一边跑着大声呼喊我女儿名字。终于在一个出口处看到我女儿站在那里等。我妈一把抱住我女儿哭着说，如果找不到孩子她也不活了，没脸回家了。走散的另一个女孩始终没找到，老太太拖着3个女孩儿找到家长们一说，大家都急死了，分头再找，最后终于找到了。大家游兴都没了，草草回家了。
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