The house is quiet and light from the computer flickers on Guys face. He is busy talking to his friends. Talking about how the football team is doing, what is happening at school. How parents are so inconsiderate and never let you do what you want. Finally getting round to who is meeting who this Saturday night!
Guy is really excited he will be meeting his new friend Dan. He has been talking to him for weeks. He has got to know Dan really well, where Dan lives, how old he is,which school he goes to what he looks like. He thinks he knows him really well.
Yes they are going to meet at MacDonald’s then after they have had something to eat and drink he is taking Dan back to meet his friends. They will not be coming back here to Guy’s house that is not convenient but his friend Charlie has a sound proof basement with a separate entrance from the house …very private. That is when the party starts, when the fun begins.
Oh! yes Saturday is going to be a good night, well deserved after all these weeks of chatting and coaxing information out of Dan. ……. suddenly the door opens and Guy clicks the screen saver up! “Dad” shouts Jimmy from the door, “Mum says dinner is ready.” Closing down the computer Guy gets up and scooping a happy squealing Jimmy up into his arms he say “right son lets go eat.
The story above is to highlight “Internet Grooming ” Young children, boys and girls groomed by adults pretending to be their age and their friends. Lure them in to sex situations that they cannot handle. Some even are murdered ….. it is a dangerous form of abuse and needs to be highlight and somehow , finished. The photo is just one off of the internet and the person in has nothing to do with grooming. Thank you again for reading the short story is in aid of Child Abuse Awareness Month.
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and
hopefully in to light ??
I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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Awful!!! It reminds me of cyberbullying. At my school, this girl’s mom pretended to be a guy and drove this other girl to commit suicide. It’s scary what people can do on the internet.
Andrea XOXOXO
Hey Willowdot21, I didn’t know it is Child Abuse Awareness Month. I had no idea.
You laid the picture well, very well. It is just like that – seems so innocent, standard. It is deeply, deeply troubling. You write well, WD21, I could picture it.
Thank you Noeleen I only found out it was CAA month the week before last. I have found it really hard to write on the subject but it is so important that I have percivered. Thanks for your support. XXX
I realize this photo has nothing to do with your written words in this post–but I do appreciate the reminder that many of these “child groomers” are white collar, suburban, professional, well-educated fathers and husbands! After all, we are told the AntiChrist will be amazingly handsome and quite polished and charming!
That is the reason I used the photo these people are not always grubby unkempt slobs! I just feel it needs to be said, I have really found this month so desperately painful. I have had to learn some awful awful things about humans things I never never wanted to know. Thank God for you and the rest of our crew on the Critterly Journal! xxx
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Awful!!! It reminds me of cyberbullying. At my school, this girl’s mom pretended to be a guy and drove this other girl to commit suicide. It’s scary what people can do on the internet.
Andrea XOXOXO
Yes there are so many, many horrendous things people seem capable of. xx
Important work you are doing here…please keep it up…we are with you.
Be encouraged!
Thank you Stephen I am grateful for your support!
Hey Willowdot21, I didn’t know it is Child Abuse Awareness Month. I had no idea.
You laid the picture well, very well. It is just like that – seems so innocent, standard. It is deeply, deeply troubling. You write well, WD21, I could picture it.
Thank you Noeleen I only found out it was CAA month the week before last. I have found it really hard to write on the subject but it is so important that I have percivered. Thanks for your support. XXX
Phew…nice one. Love the twist/gutwrencher ending. *hugs*
KC & Co.
Thank you KC it’s good to know you are supporting me
I realize this photo has nothing to do with your written words in this post–but I do appreciate the reminder that many of these “child groomers” are white collar, suburban, professional, well-educated fathers and husbands! After all, we are told the AntiChrist will be amazingly handsome and quite polished and charming!
That is the reason I used the photo these people are not always grubby unkempt slobs! I just feel it needs to be said, I have really found this month so desperately painful. I have had to learn some awful awful things about humans things I never never wanted to know. Thank God for you and the rest of our crew on the Critterly Journal! xxx