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Article: CAN WE KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE? ; Maintain open discussion of dangers, but don't scare children
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- June 30, 2009
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CHILD PROTECTION
HANOVER
After police foiled the abduction and planned rape of a 6-year-
old neighbor, Kyria Takahashi was left to explain the frightening
incident to her three children. Takahashi, who lives downstairs from
the victim's Hanover home, didn't have to worry about telling her 17-
month-old daughter. And her 3-year-old son, who sometimes talked to
the girl, was told that she got a "boo-boo."
Deciding what to tell her 12-year-old son was more difficult for
Takahashi.
"How do you teach them this - who they can trust, who they
shouldn't speak to?" Takahashi, 32, said. "I told him you can't
trust anybody."
As parents in the small community struggled to explain the crime
to their ...