It may be idealistic, but is it too much to ask that our daughters be able to walk somewhere without some creep trying to interfere with them.
A common lament among parents these days is that security concerns have made this generation of children virtual prisoners in their own homes
and yards. The days of yesteryear school holidays, when kids used to leave home at first light and return at nightfall without their mothers making frantic calls to police, seem to be well over. It is a reality, but do we need to accept it?
Hawke's Bay police are advising parents in the Pirimai area to talk to their children and "put plans in place" should they be confronted by people up to no good. This is in the wake of a sexual assault in the area last week, the third in Napier in as many months.
This latest attack, on a 17-year-old girl, happened in Woodhouse Place, near Allen Berry Ave in broad daylight at 11.30am. To make things even worse, police say the offender is a teenage boy, thought to be as young as 15.
Police believe he lives in the area and that someone will know him and the black BMX bike he was riding at the time.
