Auntie Charo's Soapbox

It was in Yigo this morning that a man, wearing steel-rimmed glasses, in his twenties tried to kidnap a twelve year old girl as she waited for her school bus. It was daylight when the man in his silver colored car drove up as he dried to push the girl into his car. Can you imagine how easily he could have done this if we were on daylight saving time?
Either way, this has already happened, daylight saving time or not. A man did kidnap a little girl and did something bad and he drove a red car and we even have a police drawing of his face from what ever the girl could remember from the trauma of that awful day, but we haven't found him. It's been rumored that he's a military man and that's he's since left.
I see these children at the various school bus stops and remember the movie about the penguins as they first move away from their mothers, learning how to be on their own, the bird predators swooping down to pick out the weak ones, no matter how many other penguins there are around the one, it always seems to get picked out. There isn't always safety in number, not when it comes to children, perhaps the reason hubby and I chose to drive the children to school when they were young. And while the story is new, we'll worry about our little children and we'll watch over them, but after awhile, we'll forget that there are evil people out there and we'll forget our little girls will eventually go back to the bus stops by themselves and be open to prey. Too bad that there aren't any parents in the neighborhood that are willing to volunteer watching bus stops keeping our children safe since it's obvious they're no longer living in a community that holds them cherished and innocent.
If the predator is caught, I will be totally surprised....but greatful...in the meantime, if parents can, I suggest they wake up a few minutes earlier and and drive their children to school to make sure they get there sans trauma!