How to Spot Child Abuse and What to Do About It

After hearing and reading about all the different aspects of this problem and all the apparent difficulties that the American public has in determining what to do when observing child abuse in progress, I would like to report to the parents of small and defenseless children where these young people are safe from adult predators.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this your Captain speaking; welcome aboard Flight 338 to San Francisco…..

With over 30 years of flying for what was once, America’s largest airline and traveling maybe 10 million miles or more, with thousands of flight attendants, there is not the slightest doubt that the following would not happen.

If a 6-foot hulking man attempted to take a ten year-old boy into the aft lavatory for any reason, he would immediately attacked by a hornet’s nest of the most irate gals that you could ever imagine, even if he were wearing a Penn State football sweater.

Fur would fly, the perpetrator would stand back with his hands covering his exposed body parts but the attack would not stop even though he would plead with his life for the fury to subside.

If he were lucky enough to be on an old Boeing 727 he would probably be thankful to parachute out the rear-stairs access door, even without a parachute. Blinded by fingernail scratches he would not be able to see the earth-objects growing larger as he does his D.B. Cooper leap to escape the air-rage.

At 30,000 feet above the mountains of the Sierra’s there would be no time to check for the flight manual to see what to do in such and such case. No need to call the Flight Attendant supervisor back in Dallas, or even to call the front office; basic laws of humanity would be applied immediately without counsel.

Basic female instincts would surface within an instant. The big guy would be on the floor within seconds. Case closed. Flight Incident report can wait till after landing.

There you have it; the last safe place for kids in America, where common sense and superb cabin-crews take care of problems as soon as they occur. Come on America, you can think better than that.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Captain again. We’ll be landing in a few minutes. Thanks for flying with us today and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

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