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[Dusty]

Oh, Tut, tut, tut.......

Whatever next? I was watching the evening news and saw that Telford local council, has implemented a new stop and question for single people as to what they are doing in the park.

The reason they are doing it is to protect children, and I have nothing against that, whatsoever. But surely this will lead to innocent people feeling they cannot visit their local park, for fear of being stopped and questioned.

Surely we are pulling the heart out of society by such measures.

Now everyone is afraid to go anywhere where children might be. Mr Dusty once went for a walk, and spotted a child stuck up a tree. The little boy asked for his help, but Mr Dusty ignored his pleas and carried on. He felt he could not stop to help, incase people judged him wrongly. Instead he came home and asked me to come and help the young lad.

What is wrong with everybody, when we all have to watch our backs?

Another example was when Mr Dusty went to the swimming baths, went into the male changing rooms, but was told bluntly by 3 middle aged women that he could not come in until the (boys only) school party had left. Instead Mr Dusty left without having a swim, he was so upset.

Trouble is people see peodophiles everywhere as we know, yet statistics show that they are no more prevalent than they were 30, 50 or 100 years ago. And these are mostly, within the family anyway.

[HolyCount]

It has got so bad that I feel uncomfortable taking my 2 year old to the park without his mum. If I am sat on a bench while he is off playing I get looked at most oddly by the mums nearby -- so I no longer go "unaccompanied"

[Dusty]

It has got so bad that I feel uncomfortable taking my 2 year old to the park without his mum. If I am sat on a bench while he is off playing I get looked at most oddly by the mums nearby -- so I no longer go "unaccompanied"

What a crazy world we live in   It fills me with sadness that we should have to feel this way

[Vamps]

Oh, Tut, tut, tut.......

Whatever next? I was watching the evening news and saw that Telford local council, has implemented a new stop and question for single people as to what they are doing in the park.

The reason they are doing it is to protect children, and I have nothing against that, whatsoever. But surely this will lead to innocent people feeling they cannot visit their local park, for fear of being stopped and questioned.

Surely we are pulling the heart out of society by such measures.

Now everyone is afraid to go anywhere where children might be. Mr Dusty once went for a walk, and spotted a child stuck up a tree. The little boy asked for his help, but Mr Dusty ignored his pleas and carried on. He felt he could not stop to help, incase people judged him wrongly. Instead he came home and asked me to come and help the young lad.

What is wrong with everybody, when we all have to watch our backs?

Another example was when Mr Dusty went to the swimming baths, went into the male changing rooms, but was told bluntly by 3 middle aged women that he could not come in until the (boys only) school party had left. Instead Mr Dusty left without having a swim, he was so upset.

Trouble is people see peodophiles everywhere as we know, yet statistics show that they are no more prevalent than they were 30, 50 or 100 years ago. And these are mostly, within the family anyway.

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Fully agree, As with all child abuse, in whatever form, it is my belief that the media have a lot to answer for.  

[Vamps]

It has got so bad that I feel uncomfortable taking my 2 year old to the park without his mum. If I am sat on a bench while he is off playing I get looked at most oddly by the mums nearby -- so I no longer go "unaccompanied"

Sadly i understand what you mean, good idea to hold you child's coat or teddy whilst sat watching the children playing.

[HerefordElite]

It has got so bad that I feel uncomfortable taking my 2 year old to the park without his mum. If I am sat on a bench while he is off playing I get looked at most oddly by the mums nearby -- so I no longer go "unaccompanied"

What a crazy world we live in   It fills me with sadness that we should have to feel this way

it is very wrong and saddens me i love my little girl more than any thing but sometimes even think to myself do this look wrong when i'm playing with her :-/ society has got a lot to amswer for

[albitz]

Just brand them on the forehead when caught,then the rest of us can carry on as normal.
then lock them in a room full of mums.

[Pete Elite]

  Just shoot all the peodophiles or at least do what albitz suggests, end of story .

[HerefordElite]

 Just shoot all the peodophiles or at least do what albitz suggests, end of story .

if my wife is anything to go by the room full of mums would be a better punishment  

[albitz]

Mine too.

[Vamps]

Most mum's I would have thought.

[Dave-C]

Heard this on Radio 2 today... what 'dangle berries'!  What about Myra Hindley, she wasn't a bloke....

We took our kids to a party at a swimming baths, we had to sign a disclaimer to take some piccys...

I'm sure I feel this way because I'm an innocent dad

[Entwood]

The majority of actual child molestations are by men actually known to the child, relatives or family "friends", percentage wise there are very few cases of "strangers in parks" doing anything.

This is a total over reaction and is more of the "Nanny State" syndrome where "councils know best" .. best thing to do is to throw them all out at the next election.

[Tony H]

It's a sad situation that we are in today, being made to feel guilty when we have nothing to be guilty about.
It brings to mind something that happened a couple of years ago. I was alone at work when I heard a noise in the car park followed by a child crying. I went to investigate and found a little boy of about seven had fallen off his bike onto the gravel. he had skinned his hand and it was dirty and bleeding. Without a second thought I helped him up and took him into the wash room cleaned and dressed his wound, checked his bike over and told him to go straight home. It only occurred to me a couple of hours later the potential situation that could have been perceived by anybody witnessing my actions, I actually had feelings of guilt. Thats got to be wrong, but that is the mindset that society has people in nowadays.
A couple of days later the little boys mum came around to my workplace to thank me for helping her son, which made me feel a lot better.

[amigov6]

It's a sad state of affairs & i don't blame him TBH. @ Lakes 07, i was watching the "world cup final" when a little lad 3 or 4 yrs old told me he could'nt see, i thought for a minute & picked him up so he could watch anyway as their were plenty of folk around. A photo was taken & posted as a names to faces for others to see & i was holding some one's son in said piccie. I think his elder sister was in the field as he asked if he could go in. I told him to take me to his Mum @ Dad & ask them which he did, all ok but throughout the whole episode i felt uneasy when i should'nt have done. Most of you know me now but that was early days. I'm a father myself & a godfather & an uncle so happily finished parenting now, but when a child shows an adult trust & the adult's reluctant to help, it's a crying shame.
    Out of interest, are the littl'un's parents still members, if so who are you?  Guy.