This lady is a true hero. She not only saved that little girl from horrible and cruel things but she also saved a family from heartbreak wondering where their child was and what had happened to her. We need more people like her in the world. If you see something that seems off speak up and say something.
Edit: for the people who don’t know the story of this woman’s bravery.
Edit: I need to clarify that when people started asking about the original story I hadn’t saved it when I seen the video yesterday. So I typed in the reddit search bar “attempted abduction in London” the very first thing that came up was the video behind this story. I just copied the link & pasted it. I never thought I should check out the persons profile or the subreddit behind this video. And since I posted the link I’m being viciously attacked in my inbox. Because people think I’m in agreement with the racist person who posted the video and gave it the name. I’m not and it was just an honest mistake. I was only trying to let people know of the original story behind this. So please stop with the cruel private messages please.
Create a password with your kids. Tell them that if someone comes to pick them up or tries to make them accompany them, this person must know the “password”. If they don’t, don’t go with them. Change the password every time one has been used.
Example: growing up, we had a password: “Pinocchio”. My siblings and I always got home from school about 40 minutes earlier than my parents did from work and so, we were home alone for this amount of time.
It was almost summer so for the 40 minutes, we played in the backyard of our house. Our neighbour, an elderly man who was always so nice to us and we had known for him years now, told my younger sister that my mom had called and asked if he could “feed us a snack” as she was running late. He was trying to get her to come inside and help him grab some sandwiches. She asked him the password and he was confused. She kept persisting and he eventually said something along the lines of, “oh yeah, your mom told me it but I can’t remember. I’m so old!” But my sister still refused.
Eventually he gave up and my mom came home on time. We told her what had happened and she marched over there basically asking him “wtf”. He said my sister got mixed up, he was simply asking us if we wanted a snack- never admitting to saying she had apparently called him and leaving out the fact that he was trying no to get her inside.
About 6 months later, he was arrested for possession of child pornography, including old photos of his own kids when they were young and some shots of other neighbourhood kids that appeared to have been taken from a window.
We truly think this password system saved my sister from being another victim of his.
EDIT: I never said it would help in this specific scenario. It’s just a general tip that my cop father/teacher mother adopted into our family and isn’t a bad idea to help prevent a situation like this. Just wanted to highlight that as a lot of people are saying, “but he grabbed her!”
sassfire on November 4th, 2020 at 15:39 UTC »
This lady is a true hero. She not only saved that little girl from horrible and cruel things but she also saved a family from heartbreak wondering where their child was and what had happened to her. We need more people like her in the world. If you see something that seems off speak up and say something.
Edit: for the people who don’t know the story of this woman’s bravery.
https://www.upworthy.com/chilling-video-shows-a-woman-bravely-saving-a-young-girl-from-being-abducted-in-real-time
Edit: I need to clarify that when people started asking about the original story I hadn’t saved it when I seen the video yesterday. So I typed in the reddit search bar “attempted abduction in London” the very first thing that came up was the video behind this story. I just copied the link & pasted it. I never thought I should check out the persons profile or the subreddit behind this video. And since I posted the link I’m being viciously attacked in my inbox. Because people think I’m in agreement with the racist person who posted the video and gave it the name. I’m not and it was just an honest mistake. I was only trying to let people know of the original story behind this. So please stop with the cruel private messages please.
YugenSelcouth on November 4th, 2020 at 16:00 UTC »
She also said her younger sister alerted her to seeing something weird going on which prompted her to go investigate. Good job to both sisters!!!
Hysterria on November 4th, 2020 at 17:22 UTC »
Avoid child kidnapping tip:
Create a password with your kids. Tell them that if someone comes to pick them up or tries to make them accompany them, this person must know the “password”. If they don’t, don’t go with them. Change the password every time one has been used.
Example: growing up, we had a password: “Pinocchio”. My siblings and I always got home from school about 40 minutes earlier than my parents did from work and so, we were home alone for this amount of time.
It was almost summer so for the 40 minutes, we played in the backyard of our house. Our neighbour, an elderly man who was always so nice to us and we had known for him years now, told my younger sister that my mom had called and asked if he could “feed us a snack” as she was running late. He was trying to get her to come inside and help him grab some sandwiches. She asked him the password and he was confused. She kept persisting and he eventually said something along the lines of, “oh yeah, your mom told me it but I can’t remember. I’m so old!” But my sister still refused.
Eventually he gave up and my mom came home on time. We told her what had happened and she marched over there basically asking him “wtf”. He said my sister got mixed up, he was simply asking us if we wanted a snack- never admitting to saying she had apparently called him and leaving out the fact that he was trying no to get her inside.
About 6 months later, he was arrested for possession of child pornography, including old photos of his own kids when they were young and some shots of other neighbourhood kids that appeared to have been taken from a window.
We truly think this password system saved my sister from being another victim of his.
EDIT: I never said it would help in this specific scenario. It’s just a general tip that my cop father/teacher mother adopted into our family and isn’t a bad idea to help prevent a situation like this. Just wanted to highlight that as a lot of people are saying, “but he grabbed her!”