before I was 8, we lived on a street where I would go out to play with my friends. the street was about a mile long and our house was in he middle. I had friends on both ends and would go to their homes without escort and we’d play outside until it got dark
when I was 8, we moved and the in the new town, it was similar except the area was less populated. by the time I was in 4th or 5th grade, I would ride my bike 2 miles to school.
this being said... there is a difference today compared to back then. back then, people weren’t hyper sexualized and if they found a pervert, he got his ass kicked. today, they let them out and allow them to continue. why? because then the people will gladly cough up more tax money for more cops and bigger govt
The sixties and early seventies were the age of therapeutic imprisonment. A lot of perverts pretended to be cured, got out and went somewhere else.
There was a serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game. In 1968 he was caught IN THE ACT raping and beating an eight year old so badly she almost died. He served 17 months, this after skipping bail and working in a summer camp. A little while later he assaulted a 13 year old. Two years served that time.
A man once exposed himself to the girl who lived across the street from me. All the men in the neighborhood went looking through the woods for him, but I don’t think they would have beaten him up, just held him for the police. My own father said it was all overblown, that the man was probably just trying to relieve himself, and didn’t realize a young girl was nearby. And he didn’t tell me to stay in sight of our house. Ah, the sixties-early seventies, a loathsome time.
And if he was stupid enough to call the cops, they'd kick his ass as well for good measure !
I walked a mile to school when I was five.
This story is disgusting.