Warning: This story may be disturbing to readers who are triggered by stories of child sexual abuse.
There was a crazy, dirty, old man in the neighborhood where I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. He’d lived there for years and raised a family. No woman would walk near him. Upon moving into the neighborhood, the first thing every woman learned was to stay away from him and to warn their little girls to run if they saw him coming. A cry would go up at his appearance and little girls from all directions literally ran home to Mama. You can believe I was severely warned never to approach “that” house. Thank God we have made progress in the way child molestors and sex predators are treated now. Just think how many people this man must have harmed and lives he must have ruined.
Nutsrok 
Not only are pedophiles still in the world, they have adapted new technologies to their tools of exploitation.
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That is unfortunate.
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Especially unfortunate for people who don’t know they’re vulnerable to them.
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True!
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It’s a real pity… but unlukily there still men like him in the world….
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Thank goodness you all knew to stay away from him..It must have been awful for his wife and kids who also must have heard the rumours.
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Must have.
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What exactly did he do to the girls?
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Never heard specifics.
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So true. We have come a long way in recognizing the sexual predator. More awareness still needs to be put out there.
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So true!
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Absolutely
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Did you ever learn what he might have done to cause that reaction? Hopefully, someone hadn’t just started a nasty rumor about him at some point.
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Never heard anything specific except I know he felt up women.
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Ah. Reason enough to warn the girls away from him.
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It is sickening, isn’t it but I remember those days, we were just told to stay away from “those” kind of men… what the hell…. glad things have changed.
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True.
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There was some good networking in those days. Word got around about who was up to no good.
Leslie
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Sure was. We knew to run.
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and hide too.
Leslie
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No kidding.
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Gee, that’s horrible! Poor kids.
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