You should NOT hide it from kids unless you have a child that is never for a second alone. The children that have been told know they can say something or are more vigilant. I have seen stories recently of kids helping other kids not get kidnapped. If they hadn't been informed the children would have just disappeared. You don't have to tell them the worst of it but enough that they are aware. One little girl realized what was happening and smeared green goo she had been playing with on him. He was found and identified easily do to the green goo.
I found out the hard way when I was 7. My mom did not know and wished she had known this type of thing happens. She learned when she actually walked in on him molesting me and then had a nervous break down and did nothing but sit and stare at nothing for an hour until I hugged her and told her I love her and please come back. She hugged me and then cried and cried. She turned him in, but he was in the CIA, very German, and he broke bail and disappeared.
You should NOT hide it from kids unless you have a child that is never for a second alone. The children that have been told know they can say something or are more vigilant. I have seen stories recently of kids helping other kids not get kidnapped. If they hadn't been informed the children would have just disappeared. You don't have to tell them the worst of it but enough that they are aware. One little girl realized what was happening and smeared green goo she had been playing with on him. He was found and identified easily do to the green goo.
I found out the hard way when I was 7. My mom did not know and wished she had known this type of thing happens. She learned when she actually walked in on him molesting me and then had a nervous break down and did nothing but sit and stare at nothing for an hour until I hugged her and told her I love her and please come back. She hugged me and then cried and cried. She turned him in, but he was in the CIA, very German, and he broke bail and disappeared.