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POPSWhen the Molester is Someone You Trust(ed) Here are some red flags that all parents and caretakers should be mindful of: Red Flags * Someone who repeatedly tries to arrange one-on-one, alone time with a child. * Someone who lavishes an extraordinary amount of attention or praise on a particular child. * Someone who often gives special gifts or treats to one child for no apparent reason. * Someone who prefers to spend most of their free time with children and seems to have no interest in age-appropriate relationships or friendships with other adults or colleagues. * Someone who often seems “too good to be true”. What to tell your kids: * No one, especially another adult, has the right to touch you in any way that makes you feel uncomfortable, yucky, or weird. * Be careful around any adult who wants to make you their “special girlfriend/boyfriend” and tells you to keep it a secret. * Sometimes people may seem nice at fir
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POPSA Missing Child Case From 1912: The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar Part. 2
Growing up in Winston-Salem, N.C., Margaret had heard the old family tale of her grandfathers exciting kidnapping and recovery. Newspaper clippings of the trial roused her attention and she began researching the events of 1913 for herself. Cutright spent months scanning and transcribing the telegrams, letters and depositions from the 900 page defense file. Witnesses had placed Walters and the boy he called Bruce miles away from Opelousas the day Bobby went missing at a time when traveling between cities could take days. Julia Anderson settled in Mississippi after the trial and told her remaining children that their half brother had been stolen from them. The return of Bobby to the Dunbars’ had resulted in the kidnapping of Bruce from the Andersons’. The boy, when realizing that he had gone from homespun clothes and sharecropping to a nice home with a pony and bicycle, had spurned his mother. Years later, in a story to another newspaper, The boy now known as Bobby claimed he re