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Old Fri Aug 21, 2009, 05:14pm
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Originally Posted by JRutledge View Post
I just remember when I was a kid, we had no cell phones, GPS systems and we would be all over the neighborhood with no parental supervision and someone how we were not harmed or killed by some child predator. I am not saying things did not happen to kids of my era, but it was hardly a stranger it was a family member or a friend of the family. But because of the media attention, we have people convinced that there are people lurking in the shadows that you need to be the most concerned with.

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It still is. You're much more likely to be victimized by someone you already know and not by some random predator. (i.e. those awful sports officials in this case )
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