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Children/Teens and
Chat Rooms :-Footsteps On-line
Shannon could
hear the footsteps behind her as she walked toward home. The thought of
being followed made her heart beat faster. "You're being
silly," she told herself, "no one is following you." To be
safe, she began to walk faster, but the footsteps kept up with her pace.
She was afraid to look back and she was glad she was almost home. Shannon
said a quick prayer, "God please get me home safe." She saw the
porch light burning and she leaned against the door for a moment, relieved
to be in the safety of her home.
She glanced out the window to see if anyone was there. The sidewalk was
empty. After tossing her books on the sofa, she decided to grab a snack and
get on-line. She logged on under her screen name ByAngel213. She checked
her Buddy List and saw GoTo123 was on. She sent him an instant message:
ByAngel213: Hi. I'm glad you are on! I thought someone was following
me home
today. It was really weird!
GoTo123: LOL You watch too much TV. Why would someone be following you?
Don't you live in a safe neighborhood?
ByAngel213: Of course I do. LOL I guess it was my imagination cuz' I
didn't
see anybody when I looked out.
GoTo123: Unless you gave your name out on-line. You haven't done that
have
you?
ByAngel213: Of course not. I'm not stupid you know.
GoTo123: Did you have a softball game after school today?
ByAngel213: Yes and we won!!
GoTo123: That's great! Who did you play?
ByAngel213: We played the Hornets. LOL. Their uniforms are so gross! !
They
look like bees. LOL
GoTo123: What is your team called?
ByAngel213: We are the Canton Cats. We have tiger paws on our uniforms.
They
are really cool.
GoTo123: Did you pitch?
ByAngel213: No I play second base. I got to go. My homework has to be
done
before my parents get home. I don't want them mad at me. Bye!
GoTo123: Catch you later. Bye
Meanwhile...... GoTo123 went to the member menu and began to search for her
profile. When it came up, he highlighted it and printed it out. He took out
a pen and began to write down what he knew about Angel so far:
Her name: Shannon
Birthday: Jan. 3, 1985, Age: 13,
State where she lived: North Carolina,
Hobbies: softball, chorus, skating and going to the mall.
Besides this information, he knew she lived in Canton because she had just
told him. He knew she stayed by herself until 6:30 p.m. every afternoon
until her parents came home from work. He knew she played softball on
Thursday afternoons on the school team, and the team was named the Canton
Cats. Her favorite number 7 was printed on! her jersey. He knew she was in
the eighth grade at the Canton Junior High School. She had told him all
this in the conversations they had on-line. He had enough information to
find her now.
Shannon didn't tell her parents about the incident on the way home
from the ball park that day. She didn't want them to make a scene and
stop her from walking home from the softball games. Parents were always
overreacting and hers were the worst. It made her wish she was not an only
child.
Maybe if she had brothers and sisters, her parents wouldn't be so
overprotective.
By Thursday, Shannon had forgotten about the footsteps following her. Her
game was in full swing when suddenly she felt someone staring at her. It
was then that the memory came back! . She glanced up from her second base
position to see a man watching her closely. He was leaning against the
fence behind first base and he smiled when she looked at him. He
didn't look scary and she quickly dismissed the fear she had felt.
After the game, he sat on a bleacher while she talked to the coach. She
noticed his smile once again as she walked past him. He nodded and she
smiled back. He noticed her name on the back of her shirt. He knew he had
found her. Quietly, he walked a safe distance behind her. It was only a few
blocks to Shannon's home, and once he saw where she lived he quickly
returned to the park to get his car. Now he had to wait.
He decided to get a bite to eat until the time came to go to Shannon's
house. He drove to a fast food restaurant and sat there until time to make
his move.
Shannon was in her room later that evening when she heard voices in the
living room. "Shannon, come here," her father called. He sounded
upset and she couldn't imagine why. She went into the room to see the
man from the ballpark sitting on the sofa.
"Sit down," her father began, "this man has just told us a
most interesting story about you." Shannon sat back. How could he tell
her parents anything? She had never seen him before today!
"Do you know who I am, Shannon?" the man asked.
"No," Shannon answered.
"I am a! police officer and your online friend, GoTo123."
Shannon was stunned. "That's impossible! GoTo is a kid my age!
He's 14 and he lives in Michigan!"
The man smiled. "I know I told you all that, but it wasn't true.
You see, Shannon, there are people on-line who pretend to be kids; I was
one of them. But while others do it to find kids and hurt them, I belong to
a group of parents who do it to protect kids from predators.
I came here to find you to teach you how dangerous it is to talk to people
on-line. You told me enough about yourself to make it easy for me to find
you. Your name, the school you went to, the name of your ball team and the
position you played. The number and name on your jersey just made
finding
you a breeze."
Shannon was stunned. "You mean you don't live in
Michigan?"
He laughed. "No, I live in Raleigh. It made you feel safe to think I
was so far away, didn't it?" She nodded.
"I had a friend whose daughter was like you. Only she wasn't as
lucky. The guy found her and murdered her while she was home alone. Kids
are taught not to tell anyone when they are alone, yet they do it all the
time on-line. The wrong people trick you into giving out information a
little here and there on-line. Before you know it, you have told them
enough for them to find you without even realizing you have done it. I hope
you've learned a lesson from this and won't do it again.
Tell others about this so they will be safe too?
That night Shannon and her dad and Mom all knelt down together and thanked
God for protecting Shannon from what could have been a tragic situation.
Please send this to as many people as you can to teach them to not to give
any information about themselves. This world we live in today is too
dangerous to even give out your age, let alone anything else.
EVEN FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS SO THEY CAN SEND IT TO FRIENDS
THAT DO HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN.....
May God always bless you!
(I left the 'God' bits in, 'coz
they crack me up >:])
Related pic:-
...yesssssss, I *KNOW* it's a repost pic
:P
posted by QuokkaSokka on Thursday 21st July 2005, 23:22:03
"Put four fingers in!" screamed the large-hipped
bisexual budgie as the nose-grooming dentist defiled her rosebud
disk drives and dipped his surgically altered ramrod into her
slurping furrow.
So, you're saying you've given out a ton of info and pixs on
yourself on the internet...but no nibbles, while this little tart gets an
in-home visit, with only the slightest effort.
How sad for you...and such an ugly self-realization wake-up call to boot.
And then the cop and the father gave the 14 year old girl a sound
'breaking in' so that she wouldn't be traumatized by a
stranger raping her. The 14 year old girl learned the value of pussy, and
began her own business as a whore. She is now Jennifer Lopez
nice to know you thought of me. thanks for the info and i will say that i
already have my own methods for getting them to open their little throats
up nice and wide...
I read a story a lot like this once some 3 or 4 years ago, except the
ending was different, it went something like this:
"Oh, and one more thing, Shannon. I'm not really a police
officer," he said, and with that, he took out his pistol and killed
both of Shannon's parents, forced himself upon her then killed her
too.
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