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What You Can Do to Help Prevent the Sexual Molestation
of Children
What Parents and Guardians Can Teach their Children to Help
Prevent Sexual Molestation
- If you are in a public place, and you get separated from your parents,
grandparents, or guardians don't wander around looking for them. Go
to a checkout counter, the security office, or the lost and found and
quickly tell the person in charge that you have lost your family and
need help in finding them.
- You should not get into a car or go anywhere with any person unless
your parents, grandparents, or guardians have told you that it is okay.
- If someone follows you on foot or in a car, stay away from him or
her. You don't need to go near the car to talk to the people inside.
- Grownups and others who need help should not be asking children for
help; they should be asking older people.
- No one should be asking you for directions or to look for a "lost
puppy" or telling you that your family is in trouble and that
he or she will take you to them.
- If someone tries to take you somewhere, quickly get away from him
(or her) and yell or scream, "This man/woman is trying to take
me away," or "This person is not my father/mother/grandmother/grandfather/guardian."
- You should try to take a friend with you, and never go places alone.
- Always ask your parents', grandparents', or guardians' permission
to leave the yard or play area or to go into someone's home.
- Never hitchhike or try to get a ride home with anyone unless your
parents, grandparents, or guardians have told you it is okay to ride
with him or her.
- No one should ask you to keep a secret. If he or she does, tell your
parents, grandparents, guardians, or teacher.
- If someone wants to take your picture, tell him or her no and
tell your parents, grandparents, guardians, or teacher.
- No one should touch you in the parts of the body covered by the bathing
suit, nor should you touch anyone else in those areas. Your body is
special and private.
- You can be assertive, and you have the right to say no to
someone who tries to take you somewhere; touches you; or makes you
feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused in any way.
Excerpted from Know
the Rules...General Tips for Parents and Guardians to Help Keep
Their Children Safer and Preventing
the Sexual Exploitation of Children. Copyright © respectively
2000 and 2003 National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
All rights reserved.
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