Abduction attempt blamed on lax politicians

27 May 2015

Commenting after yesterday's attempted abduction of a five year old boy outside a Hastings school the Sensible Sentencing Trust has lashed out at politicians for “putting our kids at an undue and totally unacceptable risk”.

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Garth McVicar who founded SST in 2001 says it does not take rocket science to figure that if legislation allows convicted paedophiles and sex-offenders to live secretly and anonymously in our communities the risk of abduction and sexual abuse of children will increase correspondingly.

“Obviously our political leaders see this risk as acceptable but I don’t.”

“Will it take another child to be abducted, raped and murdered before our politicians have the courage and backbone to stop this nonsense?”

Detective Rob Parker said a 10-year-old girl was walking her five-year-old brother to St Matthews Primary School in King St, Hastings just before 9am when a man began following them.

Police say the boy was walking behind his sister and as they got to the school driveway a man grabbed the five-year-old by the hand and started leading him down the road.

The young boy cried out and his sister turned around and called out to him. The man then let go of the boy's hand and left the area.

Mr Parker said the incident comes as a reminder for parents to discuss 'stranger danger' with their children.

"Unfortunately we do have these types of incidents occurring every now and then, so it's incumbent upon parents to educate their children about not going off with strangers and what to do if they feel they are in danger."

But Garth McVicar said children should be able to walk to school safely and without fear of abduction.

“Putting fear in our kids about stranger danger is not the answer. The public have a right to know and deserve to know, who lives amongst us and the potential threat and danger they are to our children.”

“As I see it the answer lies fair and square with our politicians, they either lock the bad guys up or introduce a publicly available sex-offender register so we know who they are and the risk they pose to our kids.”

McVicar said Blessie Gotingco would be still alive today if the community where her killer lived knew who he was and the danger he posed.

“Obviously our politicians have decided that the risk these dangerous offenders pose is an acceptable price to pay for living in a liberal society that put the rights of paedophiles and sex offenders before the rights of children and communities to be safe.”

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