They laugh it off... but little children shouldn’t need to treat every stranger with the highest suspicion if we had a well behaved society.
Just the other day a little girl followed me to the door of my apartment in the complex where I currently am, just innocently curious about where I had been (downtown working, little girl). I shuddered a little to think of what could come of her if instead of I, the person she had approached had been a fiend that preys on children for sport. Oh look at the kitties... would you like to come in and pet them... and shortly afterwards a different kind of petting would take place.
Sooner or later a child molester is going to be publicly castrated, lynched & videoed before the police can intervene. The video would be most satisfying to watch.
I think it’s already happening in South America where street justice often overrides due process.
Meanwhile, stupid evil critics of the new North Carolina law want to facilitate outrages against helpless children.
“Better that a great millstone should be hung around his neck...”