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Show Sheriff Warns Parents to Caution Children About Strangers The Grand County Sheriff's Department this week issued a warning to parents, to instruct in-struct their children to beware be-ware of strangers. The warning warn-ing stated: "The Grand County Sheriff's Sher-iff's Department is interested interest-ed in taking all proper measures mea-sures to insure the safety and welfare of your children. The natural friendliness and innocwence of children, their desire to please adults, oft-times oft-times leads them into potentially poten-tially dangerous situations such as associations with strangers who may be child molesters. "Your children are often unescorted to and from school and while at play. Because Be-cause of this they are vulnerable vul-nerable to this type of contact con-tact and should be alerted to this hazard. "The best place they can be taught is in the privacy and security of their own home by the persons they love and trust the most: their parents. We request that you, not once but several sev-eral times, calmly instruct your children in the following follow-ing safeguards: "1. Avoid strangers no matter mat-ter what they want and stay away from living quarters of men who live alone, even if they are known in the neighborhood. neigh-borhood. "2. To refuse to get inio a stranger's car or to go with him even if he should say, "Your mother sent me to get you," or tempt them with candies or toys. Teach them to try to get the license lic-ense number of the stranger'! car. Instruct them not to approach the car of a stranger stran-ger but to stay on the side walk. If someone tries to force them into a car, tell them to run and scream loudly loud-ly for help. "3. To make sure no stranger stran-ger touches them while they are attending movies or in parks, playgrounds or other places. If someone does annoy an-noy them they should immediately im-mediately leave or notify another adult. Scream if necessary. ne-cessary. "4. To walk to school with other children if .possible, and to stay with others while on the playgrounds. There is safety in numbers. "5. To notify someone in all cases, the nearest adult or the nearest householder, if they are approached by a stranger Teach them to try to remember what the person per-son and the car looks like. "6. To always tell you if anything unusual happens, even if it should involve a friend, neighbor, or relative. Often children, through embarrassment em-barrassment or for other reasons, will not tell their parents of such an incident. Child molesters know this and will sometimes tell the victims that their parents will be angry if they find out what has happened. "We sincerely hope that your children will not be exposed ex-posed to the danger and unpleasantness un-pleasantness of being accosted accost-ed by a molester," Sheriff W. H. Bowman said "By thoroughly teaching them th above points, you will hero insure that this hope is achieved," ach-ieved," he said.- Sheriff Bowman urged pa rents to report any incideo's to his office, and promised a thorough investigation and that the source will be held in confidence. |