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DALLAS (AP) — The headlines
it week were full of frightening
es,especially for young people.
Fourteen students and a teacher
id during a shooting spree at a
nver-area high school.
In Texas, 6-year-old Opal Jo Jen-
igs of Saginaw remained missing
er being abducted from her front
rd March 26; 3-year-old Cristy
no of Irving was found dead in
j mnity River four days after
nishmg from her mother’s apart-
intland two toddlers were found
in in a Central Texas creek.
Parents were alarmed by these
?nts, which occurred during Na
nai Week of the Young Child.
lla| police received a surge of re-
ests for child-safety presenta-
ns.
Experts say that while adults of-
i want to teach children to re-
?ctlieir elders, they should also
iphasize that it is OK — even
'■B- to say no. They say chil-
?n leed explicit instruction that
;y can run away or refuse to let
adult touch them.
Safety education should be
taught like academic subjects and
continuously reinforced and up
dated as children mature, said Dal
las Police Lt. Bill Walsh, who works
in the Child Abuse and Exploitation
Unit. And adults shouldn’t let
down their guard after news of the
“Supervision by a
caretaker needs to
be the paramount
defense”
— Lt. Bill Walsh
Dallas Police Department
current tragedies subsides, he said.
“Supervision by a caretaker
needs to be the paramount de
fense,” Walsh said, “because even
if a child has memorized all these
rules, against a motivated, strong
offender they don’t stand a
chance.”
Pam Holm of Dallas said she al-
NEWS IN BRIEF
ready watches her two young chil
dren closely. Now, she said she will
forbid them from playing alone in
their fenced backyard.
“It’s sad times when we have to
do this with 3-year-olds because
they should not have to be worried
about these things,” said Holm, a
full-time homemaker and former
emergency room nurse.
Experts say children are much
more likely to be hurt by someone
they know — most often their own
parents — than they are to be
snatched by a stranger.
The federal government report
ed this month that the number of
child abuse or neglect cases has
dropped slightly over the last four
years, though officials acknowl
edged that other studies show the
victims may be undercounted.
Texas statistics reveal an in
crease in violence against young
children. The Dallas Morning News
reported that the state logged a
record-high 176 child abuse homi
cides last year. That figure repre
sents a 70 percent increase over the
previous year.
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imed the lives of three children may have been
rted to cover up the shooting deaths of their two
rents, investigators said Monday.
Autopsies performed Sunday showed Nilda Tirado,
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imagine who would do this ... I just don’t get it.”
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molestation charges
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had any contact with the person,” stated the an
nouncement read to parishioners.
Magaldi retired after a 35-year-old man said the
priest abused him in Massachusetts for several years
in the 1970s, according to Fort Worth Catholic Diocese
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