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In reply to the discussion: A man keeps giving small presents to my 5-year-old daughter, and it's freaking me out. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)of the children's section. A CUSTOMER complained about him to a clerk, who then said they don't allow men in the children's section.
I'd bet you that the man was not just browsing through some books. I bet he was hanging around some of the kids there and that's what caught that customer's attention.
The clerk isn't going to walk up to the man and accuse him of lusting after children. Instead, he recites a rule about men not being allowed alone in the children's section.
We all know creepy behavior when we run across it. It's hard to describe it, and there is always a supposed reasonable explanation for it...but you know in your gut that something's not right. In this day and age when children are abused and molested daily, I would err on the side of protecting a child. No need to be ugly or accusatory. There's just a need to stop the behavior.