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Why are children being accompanied by adults to crime/violent scenes?

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Bringing up children in this day and age is an evolving phenomenon, where parents from all walks of life try to provide the best quality of life they can for their children. For parents raising children in communities plagued by crime and gang violence t’s a completely different ball game?

From videos gone viral to news reports, onlookers at crime scenes are becoming younger as adults often drag children along. These young, impressionable and curious, these little onlookers are subjected to the horrors of reality in South African communities. The pictures imprinted in these little minds make for subject material for psychology journals and trials years down the line…

Tonight, we ask, why children are accompanying adults to crime/violent scenes?

chairperson of Lentegeur community police forum Byron De Villiers ; chairperson for the Lavender Hill community police forum Gavin Walbrugh; Director of therapeutics at The Teddy Bear Clinic South Africa Dr. Shahieda Omar
2 Apr 2019 English South Africa News

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