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Parents worry about fifth arrest in a month at Florida water parks
> Posted by Anne Vasquez on July 17, 2009 11:45 AM
There seems to be a new haven for sexual predators: Water theme parks. In the past month, police have arrested five men on charges of molestation at an Orlando-area water park.
The men, some local and some out-of-towners, have fondled young girls and boys at places such as Disneys Typhoon Lagoon, Universals Wet n Wild and Sea Worlds Aquatica water park. The latest incident involved the arrest of a man late Thursday who inappropriately touched a 13-year-old boy while in the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. According to investigators, the man admitted to touching young boys in the wave pool as an experiment.
As a parent, this news has to make you rethink how to handle these public places. My son is four years old and wont ever be far from me at a water park. But I have quietly panicked when I momentarily have lost sight of him while he goes down one of the dozen kiddy slides at Paradise Cove at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines.
Where do you draw the line between freedom and overprotection with your kids?
Parents worry about fifth arrest in a month at Florida water parks
> Posted by Anne Vasquez on July 17, 2009 11:45 AM
There seems to be a new haven for sexual predators: Water theme parks. In the past month, police have arrested five men on charges of molestation at an Orlando-area water park.
The men, some local and some out-of-towners, have fondled young girls and boys at places such as Disneys Typhoon Lagoon, Universals Wet n Wild and Sea Worlds Aquatica water park. The latest incident involved the arrest of a man late Thursday who inappropriately touched a 13-year-old boy while in the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. According to investigators, the man admitted to touching young boys in the wave pool as an experiment.
As a parent, this news has to make you rethink how to handle these public places. My son is four years old and wont ever be far from me at a water park. But I have quietly panicked when I momentarily have lost sight of him while he goes down one of the dozen kiddy slides at Paradise Cove at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines.
Where do you draw the line between freedom and overprotection with your kids?
