No Matter What Time of Day It Is, Do You Know Where Your Kids Are?
The world is a different place than it used to be, we all know this. If you don’t, then go ahead and climb out from under that rock, pop a cold drink of your choice and look around.
Lets take Florida, for example. Four children, three of them gone forever. No longer living in the safety and comfort of their own homes.
Haleigh Cummings vanishes in the night from her own bed. There is enough personal drama surrounding this case to fill a football stadium but that’s beyond the point. A five year old girl was taken and although she is still listed as missing, information from veteran officers close to the case have secret “low hopes” for finding this baby alive.
Then there was seven year old Somer Thompson. Who after being seperated from a group of kids on the daily walk home from school was found in a Georgia landfill just 3 days later. Murdered by an unknown person, in an unknown place for an unknown reason. There is a person of interest in this case but no new information.
Seventeen year old Makia Coney, almost a senior in high school. Got in a truck with two known classmates after school one afternoon. Her parents reported her missing and just 3 hours after leaving the school her body was found in a nearby park with 2 different gunshot wounds to the head. Her classmates confessed to the crime with no clear motive.
And just a couple weeks ago, a newborn baby was taken from his family by Department of Family Services impersonater who claimed to have followed the couple for 2 days. The kidnapper told her family the baby was a girl. Luckily, it was discovered the baby was actually a boy and he was safely returned to his family.
I’m sure I left out cases in Florida that are no less important then these. And if I went state by state I know there are hundreds more. Some you never hear about.
As mature as your child may seem, they are still children. They are lacking life experiences that prepare them for dangerous situations. That’s why they look to us to protect them. And even when it seems as though we drive them crazy, they still need us.
And for heaven’s sake, a little common sense goes long way. What would you do if a “social worker” showed up just 3 days after your baby came home from the hospital? Thank her for dropping by and hand over your baby? I don’t think so. “You better go get the police and pry this baby from my dead body”, that’s what I’d say.
Take the responsibility of keeping your loved ones safe.