What girls must do to avoid danger
“When someone goes missing, make sure that you report them to the nearest police station as soon as possible as there is no waiting period.”
Kwatsaduza – Earlier this week I read a social media post about a young girl who was almost kidnapped after boarding a rented taxi.
She was apparently from a family gathering and boarded a home-bound taxi, but was shocked when the driver told her to buckle-up for a ride to hell.
When she asked what the driver meant, he told her she would never ever see her family again, and then locked all the car doors.
18-year-old fakes own kidnapping
Fortunately for her, along the residential road they were travelling on, there was an event that forced the vehicle to slow down.
She was then able to scream for help, and out of panic, the driver allowed her to get out of the car.
This young girl could have added to the national statistics of human trafficked girls who are forced into indecent acts by the perpetrators.
On another matter, on Saturday, over 34 children, in a bakkie headed to Tshwane from Rusternburg, North West, there were girls who were cramped like sardines, and hidden under sail-like material, at the back of a pick-up.
They girls did not have any documentation, and the driver could not explain why he had all the children cramped at the back of his bakkie, covered in the way they were. Could it be that they were kidnapped for reasons only known to the driver?
Human trafficking has become a reality in country, with victims forced into prostitution and drug trafficking.
Human trafficking is referred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_South_Africa as the practice of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation.
We can no longer hope that nothing will happen to our children whenever they are out of sight.
KwaThema police Captain Thabo Sibuyi shared some of these tips, directed especially to children and parents. They include:
• Advise your children to be safety conscious, and to use safer routes to travel to and from home.
• Teach them to avoid quiet spots, dark areas, passages and parks.
• Always have full details of where you children are and people they visit.
• Encourage them to walk or play with other children instead of being alone.
• Advise them to avoid being on their cellphone, to refrain from using headsets or ear phones so they can observe what is happening around them at all times.
• Teach them not to talk to strangers, go anywhere with them or accept their gifts.
• Educate them on possible danger signs and what they can do when they feel at risk or in danger.
•Help them to memorise important cellphone numbers, homes address and to readily have their parents’ full details.
• Always know what they wear.
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Sibuyi says when someone goes missing, make sure you report them to the nearest police station as soon as possible, as there is no waiting period.
Also have a detailed information about missing persons and a recent photo of them.
