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I hope parents REALLY think about that study. Children need to be taught that danger is not necessarily in the form of some evil looking oddly dressed character. I once saw a little scenario, where a very nicely dressed man walked up to a group of kids and said very nicely and politely, "i've...

He was warned, over and over and over. He DELIBERATELY chose to leave her alone with the children, against all warnings from doctors and even Andrea herself. By the way, her conviction was overthrown on appeal, on condition that she remain in a mental health facility, and she was found not...

People can oooh and ahh over these crimes, but until they really know the circumstances, they don't understand what the real problem is that underlies these problems. The mentally ill people who are actively prevented from getting treatment, for one thing, and for another the people who have...

I read a study once that showed that although children were often warned about being abducted by someone when they were playing or going from place to place, that they expected the person to be 'creepy' or 'weird' in some way. They were wary of a person wearing an odd long coat and strange hat...

I am very accustomed to people with dementia or mental illness or brain damage, laughing or smiling inappropriately. Also staring at me very fixedly - common with many symptoms including paranoia. People with paranoia tend to stare, no one knows why. I think they are basically being...

By the way, to the original poster: The screen in the Worledge home was cut from the inside. Also, the brother reported the girl missing, saying he had heard and seen burglars in the home, and hidden because he was afraid they would harm him. There was no sign of a struggle in the home or...

I think the thing that scares people is the idea of lack of control over what happens. A crime that seems more random, more unpredictable, more just a sudden impulse of some disordered person, is more feared, especially if it happens in their home, which is supposed to be their castle. They're...