Careful Folks

Posted: Jul 20, 2017

Please be careful as to making accusations then posting on Facebook. In the state where I live, a man scooped up a child (not known to the child or the family), in a park in an attempt to protect the child from a stalker he noticed who was taking pictures of the little girl while she was frolicking in a water fountain in her bathing suit. The Good Samaritan didn't see any adults close by who were paying attention to the child. Meanwhile, some woman had whipped out her cell phone and took pictures of the good guy scooping the kid up and proceeded to post it all over social media, calling him a pervert and kidnapper and to look out for him, basically splashing his photo all over the place. Please don't do this. Okay, take the picture and notify the authorities, but don't be putting it on FB, etc. Of course, it would have been appropriate for the woman to approach the man in order to protect the child, but that's not what she did---she took the pic and immediately put it up on social media before taking any other action. This pretty much ruined the man's career and standing in the community until it was cleared up. People, please!;