What is going on in our society? It seems that every man now has to be considered a potential predatory child pest!
I refer to the sad case of the Rev. Alan Barrett who innocently gave a ‘peck’ on the forehead at a prize giving and found himself the center of a police, social services and church investigation. Although no impropriety was found, he has resigned from the chairman of governors – see his statement. Even though he has taken this step after being found not guilty, the girls’ mother is still upset that more punishment has not been dropped on Alan Barrett.
I wonder what sort of mother this girl has, does she see every man as a threat to her daughters safety? I wonder what she will have said to her to explain what she has done on her behalf.
I am the first to say that all children should be 100% protected from what seems to be an increasing amount of abuse, but how can what Alan Barrett did, be seen in that light? I agree that times have changed and today, any touching of children is seen in a very different light from the time when I served on a Junior School Parents Teachers Association
Perhaps the child that had fallen over on the sports field that I picked up and returned to their parents for comfort, would now have to lay on the ground until the parents found them! Perhaps the nine year old girl that had cut her knee and I had applied a plaster and comforted her to stop the crying would now have to continue to cry and bleed all over the place!
Perhaps today, my youngest child when he was nine, might not be here, if two people had not helped him out of a pond when he fell in! Did we as parents suspect at that the two people that helped him were a threat? Did we think of challenging what there motives were, of course not, we were just grateful that he was helped.
There is something strange today when a man cannot be seen near a child that is not his own (that in itself raises other issues not addressed in this post) without society seemingly wanting to suspect the worst.
At the end of the day, a kiss really is only a kiss…
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