Attention Parents:
Do You Educate Your Children (both male & female) about Maintaining Personal Security?
A Pair of 16 Year Old Girls Were Approached by an Unknown Older Man
Who Wanted to Give Them a Ride Home.
It Turned Out this Man Had Been a Convicted Rapist of a 13 Year Old Girl!
Current times have some people thinking that bad things won’t happen to them,
that it would happen to other people.
The sentence above sounds like a weird opening, right? And you might be thinking it would never happen to you or your family or anyone else in your neighborhood. Sometimes I have thought that people wouldn’t harm someone else. But I have seen things that have happened to others that showed them that they couldn’t trust people who they thought were nice people. And some things have happened to me that scared the living daylights out of me, but the person backed off after realizing I was terrified and crying.
A friend of mine called me today, and she shared with me an event that happened today to her daughter Sloan (age 16), and Emily, a girl that was Sloan’s age that shows that no matter what, some people can NOT be trusted. Sloan and Emily live in an upscale neighborhood in Palos Verdes Peninsula. It’s a lovely area with lots of kids who bike through the hills and visit the shopping center to have ice cream or buy a book, or to go shopping at Target.
Emily and Sloan were outside of the Target store. They had locked their bikes to a bike rack and were just hanging out. An older man drove up in a white van and asked the girls if they wanted a ride home. Emily was the first to jump to the man’s offer. He
told them that he would drive both of the girls home, and their bikes would fit in his van. Emily was enthusiastic about the man’s offer, and the man thought Sloan would go along with Emily. Sloan jumped into the conversation, yelling, “NO.. my mom told me that people like you are bad news, and you are not to be trusted.”
The man was shocked by Sloan’s comment. Emily turned to Sloan and said that they should go with him. Sloan told Emily that this man is a menace and that he is not safe. The white-haired man got angry, and he focused on Emily. Sloan told Emily that no, they should not go with him, and he was an “F-ing bad man.” |The man got very angry and was arguing with Sloan that he was just trying to be a nice guy. The guy said to Sloan: “Didn’t your mom tell you to be kind?” Sloan responded, “My mother told me| to F politeness when you feel uncomfortable in a situation.” and said that neither girl was going to go with them. The man drove
off. During this situation, Sloan had seen the guy’s license plate, and she took a photo of his license plate.
The girls left together and biked to their respective homes. Sloan told her mom about what had happened. Her mom was
extremely upset that a stranger man was talking to those girls. Sloan told her mom the license number, and the mom called
the Sheriff’s office in Lomita (that sheriff’s office was the one for that area). The mom explained her reason for the call and
that she had the license plate number of the white van. The sheriff’s department checked the database, and the man had
been convicted of rape.. and the girl he had raped was 13!
This guy has been all over. This was the first situation where a child had actually talked to this man. The NEXT DOOR
website has posted the alert of this man trying to accost the girls. This is a situation that people in the greater Palos Verdes
area should know that there is a man who is looking for potential young girls. Palos Verdes is a large area, and the parents
and kids who live there need to have a discussion about how NOT to engage with men (or people) they don’t know.
The discussion should not be focused only on young girls, but young men too. This is a situation that can happen to ANY
family and any young person. Parents should be aware of the potential risk and talk to your children!
This situation is not fake and not made up. Sloan’s mother called me and let me know about this event. She asked me to write about the situation and to suggest that parents talk to their children about how to deal with people they don’t know.
Thanks to Sloan’s mom for contacting me about this problem and the risk to our children.
Stevie Wilson
LA-Story.com
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