How to Escape a Kidnapper - Things Every Child should Know

How to Escape a Kidnapper - Things Every Child should Know:

1. Your Child should not to be afraid to tell their parents or a trusted adult or teacher if they feel threatened, even if someone has told them not to talk. If victimized it is never their fault and never something they should be ashamed of or something that they hide from their parents or other caregivers. Tell your children you love them and that if they disappear, no matter what their kidnapper says, you will never stop loving them and you will never stop looking for them. 2. Never to go with anyone they don't want to and don't let someone take them away from where the potential kidnapper first approaches them. This and # 3 below are the most important things your child can do to stop from becoming the victim of a kidnapper.
3. Yell, scream, fight and run from any potential abductor. No matter what their assailant says, make as much noise and attract as much attention as they can.
4. If someone tries to lure them into a vehicle, run the opposite way the vehicle is facing, forcing the kidnapper to turn around to chase the child.
5. Run to their home, a neighbor's home, into a store or other public place yelling that someone is trying to kidnap them.
6. If on their bike, grip the bike. The kidnapper can't get them and their bike into a car. If on the street and they can't run, grab a street light, traffic sign, trash can, mail box or other fixed objectwhile yelling for help.
7. If the kidnapper points a gun at them, run any way. Most kidnappers don't want to attract attention by firing a gun and they probably couldn't hit the child anyway. It's better to be wounded and left to get help from others then to go off with a kidnapper who can then have his way with the child and in a worst case scenario kill the child.
8. If grabbed, twist their body and scream "this is not my dad (or my mom)!"
9. If your assailant grabs you by your coat or backpack, twist out of his grip, leaving him with the coat or backpack as you run and scream toward another nearby adult. Attract the attention of this adult by grabbing and holding on to him or her.

10. If forced into the front seat of a 4-door car or van, immediately jump into the back seat, open the rear door and escape. (Don't put on a seatbelt as this will obviously slow your escape time.)11. If placed in the trunk of a car, look for the emergency trunk release lever and pull it and escape. If you can't find this, pull out the wires to the tail lights on both sides of the trunk, therebyattracting attention to the vehicle when the stop lights don't work. Tell police that your child knows how to do this; therefore the police will be looking for cars with malfunctioning tail lights.
12. Grab the keys from the kidnapper's car and throw them out the window.
13. If in traffic, step on the accelerator and make the car crash into the car in front of it.
14. Honk the horn and try to force the kidnapper to wreck the car.
15. Do not eat or drink anything your kidnapper gives to you (it may be drugged).
16. If your kidnapper takes you into a store, knock things down, break bottles, yell and scream that you have been kidnapped.
17. If you're held in a house, flash the lights on the front porch off and on. If in an upper apartment, flood the bathroom to cause water to flood the apartment below.
18. Never stop trying to escape and always take the opportunity to use a phone to call 911 and ask for help.
19. Discuss and practice these things with your children. While doing everything we can to prevent our children from becoming the victim of a kidnapper, we need also equip them with the above information to help them escape should they be taken by an assailant. Information is key and can save the life of your child.
20. As Winston Churchill once said, “Never, never, never, never give up.”