I recently had the opportunity to establish myself as a seller during a two-day fundraiser for classic car shows. I love the people I meet. Through our conversations, I learn about your area, interests, community, and a lot of valuable information.
I met a lady, her daughter and her grandson in a pram. As she looked at the personal protection products, the old woman commented that the women in her town needed protection products to protect themselves against a local rapist.
I leaned towards her with great interest. I asked him how long the rapist was active and how many cases were documented. She told me that her minister announced it at church that Sunday just before she came to the event. Her minister wanted her congregation to know that there had been five or more rapes in the recent past in her area. I asked him what the local news had reported. She responded that none of the cases appeared in her newspapers or in any other airways news.
The general public needs to know, specifically if the attacks are against only women, girls, both, or boys and men as well. Remember the scout motto: “Always be prepared.” If the audience doesn’t know what they need to be prepared for, they won’t be prepared. With today’s electronic news, social networking sites, and information at your fingertips, there aren’t as many people who subscribe to newspapers as in the past. Radio and television news require you to be a regular listener to receive the news they want you to hear.
I live in a small town and still subscribe to our local newspaper plus a weekend paper for the second largest metropolitan area in the state in which I reside. The county and city where the clergy announced the rapist to the congregation is the same distance from the metropolitan area as the county in which I live. Nothing has been published where I live or in the large metropolitan area newspaper. With that being said, I am hopeful that by sharing valuable information through my social media and feature writing media channels, the public will be informed about a rapist in Northeast Indiana.
I don’t know if the rapist operated only in the city or county I visited, or if the geographic area spans multiple counties and cities. I believe that more than two breaches in a defined area in which the breacher uses the same methods of operation, the attacks define a serial breacher in the operation.
I understand that the public relations of a community may not want to publicly announce that there is a serial rapist among them. I also understand why law enforcement agencies may want to crack down on crimes committed in their jurisdiction. However, I know that helping communities and alerting them to potential dangers outweighs the ramifications of suppressing information. I also know that the general public will not be prepared to protect themselves unless they know what the threat is to them.
I am not suggesting that all citizens need a permit to carry weapons. I believe that awareness of a potential threat will produce ways and means to better protect themselves, their residences, and their behavior patterns of daily routes, parking, and increased awareness of the situations around them.
A real life example: My daughter worked at a mall that has since been demolished. New stores have been built where the mall used to be. Around the time period of 1999 to 2000, she took a break from a national retailer where she worked. He was approached by a couple of men and a woman who was selling perfumes. When she was asked if she was interested, she replied that she was not, due to her allergies. She was sprayed, she fell to the ground and she was crawling and trying to crawl, she couldn’t get up. A recruiting officer from one of the US military branches was returning to the mall after his dinner break. He went to where my daughter was lying (the “sellers”) immediately dispersed. He picked her up and took her to her recruiting office. He notified the store where she worked. A couple of the male employees said that the perfume salesmen were in her store but they did not react to the perfume. My daughter was 17 years old at the time. No one called me or called the police.
A coworker told me he was friends with the owners of the bar right outside the store where my daughter worked and offered to ask questions. The owners of the bar had the perfume salesmen under surveillance in their bar and a clear view of their van in the parking lot, including the license plate number. The license plate was from Illinois. I spoke to the bar manager. The bar manager informed me that he could not share the video with me, but if he made a police report, he could share the information with the police. I made a police report. A detective went to the bar and saw the vendors and their truck. The detective called me back and told me that since the vendors did not physically assault my daughter, they would not be arrested.
There were reports on social media with the same vendors operating in other cities in Indiana and Ohio. About six months after my daughter’s incident, a law enforcement agency in Ohio arrested them. They had been using the awakening to subdue and kidnap attractive young women.
If all cities with similar incidents had been shared across their state and bordering states, and a public notice had been provided to be vigilant or watch out for alerts, the perpetrators could have been apprehended much sooner and prevented kidnapping. many young women.
This is one of the reasons why I offer personal protection products. This is also why it should not be illegal or restricted to carry pepper spray or stun devices.
If you have read this entire article, you probably have a good understanding of why I believe a violator operating in any area should be shared with the public through all news outlets.
If this article helps a person avoid being assaulted, it is worth sharing. A hint for those of you who need more information, if you scan my Facebook page and one of my websites http://www.safepractice.co you will find the classic car event and the city where the violators’ actions were shared. . with the congregation by his minister.