The best way parents can make sure their children stay safe is to prepare them for the worst scenarios.
For one family, this preparation may have saved their child’s life.
A little girl escaped an attempted abduction after using a ‘code word’ her parents taught her to outsmart the perpetrator in Arizona.
A girl, 10, was walking with a friend near a park in the North Pecan Creek neighborhood in San Tan Valley when a man driving a white SUV pulled up next to them.
The man reportedly told the girl that her brothers were in a serious accident and that she needed to go with him.
The girl then asked the man what the ‘code word’ was, but the man did not know it and drove off.
Families have used code words in the past as a way to send secure messages during times of crisis or when parents send another adult to pick the children up. This little girl knew just what to ask when approached by a stranger claiming to have information about her brothers. The sheriff points out that more families need to spread the word about stranger danger and start teaching their children about code words.
The SUV has been reportedly seen circling the park several times a day according to children who live in the neighborhood.
The girl’s mother Brenda James said the technique she taught her saved her daughter’s life.
‘This one time, it saved my daughters life,’ said Brenda James, the girl’s mother.
James talked to ABC15 so that other parents could learn about code words as she did.
Source:apost.com, dailymail.co.uk
