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My daughter was almost molested the very first time I let her take the neighborhood school bus to school. She got away, and the poor little thing went all the way to school by bus without saying a word.
As soon as she got there, she told somebody. The police were called, and I got a call to come down to the school. I got there to find 3 policemen there! One was the captain of our precinct. He said that Jessie must have made some kind of move or something that caused the guy to leave. She was right in front of a building and he could have pulled her right into the lobby! He did put his hand down the back of her underwear though.
The captain told me they would arrest him if they caught him, but privately he told me and the principal that he and some of his men would take him out into the back alley first!
I went through the whole process of trying to find him with Jessie, under the advice of someone who knows about these things. She told me that way Jessie would never think that this kind of behavior was okay. She would understand that nobody was allowed to hurt her without paying serious consequences.
She did pick him out of a box of pictures, but when the female detective who had spoken with Jessie, went to his house, he had no scar. On the day he grabbed her, he had a scar on his face. The policewoman told me it was face makeup so that he couldn't be identified.
Needless to say, I drove Jessie to school from that day until the day she graduated from high school!
There are such awful, sick people around. Jessie had an angel watching out for her that day. He really could have done who knows what to her. I don't like to think about it, but it was real, and made me even more overprotective than I already had been.
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