Wake the fuck up.
So, my mum was in the car yesterday when she heard a news item about an attempted child abduction in Leopold earlier this week. It was also in the paper today: http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/05/09/13765_news.html
It came as quite a surprise to her, seeing as the school had not seen fit to tell the parents of the 700+ kids who attend Leopold Primary school (my 10-year-old sister among them).
This incident occured on Monday, and only came out in the media yesterday. Even worse, my mum found out that the parents of the child involved did not immediately ring police, instead informing the school the next day, after which the police were contacted.
If you read the news article, there’s a detailed description of the car and suspect involved. Had the school community been informed, parents and children could have been on the lookout for this car if it had returned to the area. But no, these guys had free rein in Leopold on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
I live on Kensington Rd. It’s chaos before and after school. Cars parked 500 metres up the street on both sides, hordes of kids and parents going every which way… quite easy for some psycho to grab a kid without anyone noticing anything amiss.
When my mum, understandably outraged, called the school to inquire as to why parents had not been told about this, the school’s line was that they ‘did not want to cause a panic’. Well, guess what? CHILD ABDUCTION IS SOMETHING TO FUCKING PANIC ABOUT.
Yikes! Glad it wasn’t your sister they were talking about.
I’m sure it was all about politics though and they hesitated because they didn’t want the school to look bad. I just saw some thing on school shootings the other day and its pretty scary how much knowledge the staff has beforehand in most cases before it occured.
‘the parents of the child involved did not immediately ring police’
WTF?
Hey, hey. To be fair, the parents of that kid did have Pilates that night and by the time the class finished and they’d eaten out at some fancy restaurant they were so tired they just fell asleep on the couch watching David Letterman. It’s called priorities.
Yeah.. my high school school gave that same crappy ‘we didn’t want to cause a panic’ excuse back in 2001 or 2002 and um…. we had a bomb threat. Oh and worse yet, the principal had instructed the entire staff to lie about it and cover it up.
Good old Kensington Road. It never ends. Well, it’s long.