It’s the video.
A man takes long strides past a shop window. He’s holding his wrist, or looking at his watch. His steps are firm, purposeful, his head is up, looking around. He doesn’t appear to be in a rush.
At his heels are two small children. Their steps are shorter, more hurried. A boy and a girl, following the man in the dark coat to who knows where.
He’s not their dad. He’s not their uncle. He’s not a family friend, or a professional paid to care.
He’s your worst nightmare.
Allegedly, this is a man who came to lure two small kids away from safety. Away from the adults who were meant to be keeping watch over them.
A man who came to take them and hurt them.
These children live in Perth. They are a four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy. They were at a vacation care centre, like thousands and thousands of other kids have been over the last month as Easter holidays have rolled out across the country.
Just like my kids have been.
Watch the WA police brief the public on the incident below. Post continues after video…
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So I will say now Thank you Julia Gillard for instituting the RC into institutionalised child abuse.No other pollie would have the bottle to do it and there are still some conservative commentators out there still defending those organisations.To their eternal shame
But, but, something something budget deficit! Something something she wasn't voted in! Something something carbon tax (I can't even remember anymore). Something something deliberately barren!
But but red hair, but but bad accent
There are still those, Miranda Devine I'm looking at you that still think it's a witch hunt
It is absolutely sickening that this happened the child careworkers didnt even notice the kids were missing!!! A totally preventable irreversible and unforgettable crime. Yeah sure educate stranger danger but is it really the responsibilty of 5 and 6 year olds to determine safety? There were actually adults being paid to have that responsibilty. These kids will grow up always believing they did something wrong and unsafe. It was the childcare workers that did something wrong. They failed these little darlings.
As a former centre childcare worker, I would love to make parents realise what we go through.. They drop their one or two children with us citing "oh I need a break, they're too hard to entertain/watch/be around" etc and yet at the outside school hours care centre where I worked, the law didn't require me to have a second carer unless the number of children went over 15! The parents always blame the carers, but if you can't handle supervising your own children, how can you criticise someone trying to supervise 15? Not to mention most of the children were difficult in attitude and had the run of a very large room and the verandah plus a small park...
So true ! And yet another reason I still dont work and have never used a childcare centre/creche. And this is where its hard there are too many parents not wanting to do full time parenting. I know theres exceptions to the rule of course, but many MANY working mums I know who use childcare are financially greedy and dont want to put their own time in for their kids. Again and again the kids are victims to the actions of adults.