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[quote=Anonymous]My early childhood was spent in a rural, Western Pennsylvania small town.  It was idyllic, and everyone considered it to be a very safe place for kids.  We played outside in our yards, in the woods, and at friends' houses, and everyone walked to and from the bus stops.  Until:

When I was 7, my mom stopped allowing me to walk to the bus stop, from the bus stop, or even in the backyard alone because Cherrie Mahan (google her), an 8 year old girl at my tiny country school, was abducted after getting off the school bus.  She never made it home from what should have been a two minute walk FROM HER BUS TO HER FRONT DOOR.  After that, everything changed, and I remember the hushed conversations between my moms' friends about how they could make us safer, and their fear, and the stories on the playground.  The little girl, by the way, was never found.

So I tend to opt for caution.  They say that people who abduct children often know the child, and have the chance to figure out the child's schedule for that small window of time in which they can seize the child.  Better safe and paranoid than sorry.  [/quote]

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