A social experiment on child abduction shows that children are very likely to follow a total stranger.
The following video was posted on YouTube by Joey Salads, who has gained popularity for his filmed pranks on the social media website, on 2 May.
In it he talks to mothers at a park after which he engages with their children using a puppy as a decoy. All the children in the video follow him, some even taking his hand, after he promises to show them more puppies somewhere else.
The mothers were left in shock.
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Missing Children SA on their website state that, according to figures released by the South African Police Service (Saps) Missing Persons Bureau in 2013, a child goes missing every five hours in South Africa.
This adds up to 1697 children a year.
How have you equipped your child for similar situations? Would he or she fall for Salads’ social experiment if it were conducted in South Africa?
