Very true. If I find a lost boy or girl in a public place or shopping center, I don’t offer any help at all. I go to the security desk and report the case, then I go my merry way. I don’t want to be labeled a paedophile. At the workplace, I now have a chaperone for all women and children (whatever the age) exams. I am OK being alone with a man - even if I’m fondling his balls during an exam. Or putting a finger up where the sun don’t shine.
I read this story once… “Two little girls pretend to be lost in a busy shopping centre. So how many people stop to help? One. How many ignore their plight? More than SIX HUNDRED!”
"One little girl was clutching her favourite toy while her younger sister was sucking her thumb – and both looked utterly lost and forlorn.
In a bygone era, a concerned adult might have stopped to ask them where their mother was. But in a damning indictment of modern Britain, hundreds of busy people simply walked on by.
The girls stood for an hour on a Saturday morning in a busy shopping arcade looking for ‘help’, as part of a social experiment for television.
Hidden cameras recorded Uma, seven, and Maya, five, who took it in turns to look lost.
Astonishingly, over the whole hour only one person, a grandmother, took a moment to find out if there was a problem. All of the 616 other passers-by completely ignored the girls."
Some Comments at the bottom:
“What the heck do you expect?? I can’t speak for women - but as a man, if I go near a kid I am automatically a paedophile. This is what happens.”
“today i would fear being accused of being a pedo. i bet many would fear that. if i went up to a child and the parent of the girl had seen me do it and screamed at me, i am sure people would presume the worst. so would i walk past? sadly yes.”