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Beware: Who Is Working At Your Home

A self-employed contractor was indicted Friday on hundreds of child sex assault and child pornography counts after authorities said he spent years molesting children and recording them while he worked at their homes.
Ref. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_...ctor_child_porn

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How could no one ever catch him spending alone time with their children? Don't these people watch their children? When someone else is in the house that I don't know and trust, I keep the kids away for that very reason. When a contractor or someone from the cable company comes by, I never leave them alone period, none the less alone with the kids. Geez, some parents just tick me off with their lack of intelligence or lack of caring, use your heads people!

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Sometimes even those you know and trust are the ones that commit these acts... we are hardliners when it comes to others watching our kids, in fact, we do not let them out of our site - period.

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I don't think you can be too careful these days, I think you have to be very aware of who is actually in your house.

Something similar to this happened to a friend of my Son's, her parents were having some new flooring put in, and there was 1 workman, who seemed trustworthy whilst doing the job. He however seemed to take more information than they actually realized, because the week after he had finished at their house, he turned up outside the 15 year old daughters school, shouting her name out, and for 3 consecutive nights, he just turned up in his car wherever she went. The girl was totally 'freaked' out, and it only stopped when the family reported the workman to the police, I am presuming he got a warning, because he has stopped harassing the girl since, thankfully.

It really makes you be more wary, and aware of keeping your own kids out of the way when workmen come round, and I would certainly keep my eyes open for any extra information they may be trying to get hold of!

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My mother knew where I was every minute of every day until I was 16 years old, except once.

Offtopic but, When I was about 4 I managed to slip away from her. In minutes all the neighbors and then the police were looking for me. I had walked cross country to my Aunts farm about 2 miles away. My mother couldn't believe my Aunt was the one that brought me home from that far away. As soon as my third child was old enough to walk he became an artist at vanishing. My wife and I knew he was that way and watched him like hawks, but he drove us out of our minds for 14 years. Nothing we said to him seemed to soak into his brain. One day on a walk with friends we missed him. We hadn't walked 100 feet when we realized he was gone... again! We were near cliffs that dropped 40 feet to the water and we were frantic. Then he appeared from nowhere scratched, bruised, and soaking wet. He said he had fallen into the water and climbed back up the steep rock by himself. I was in disbelief. I said, "Show me where you climbed back up." He did and I still have trouble believing he climbed that rock face. We took him to emergency to find the worst problem he had was scratches and some bleeding. The good news was that his fall and climb scared him so bad he finally stopped disappearing.

Edited: mousetrails on 7th Sep, 2006 - 2:57pm