Photo: Screenshot Youtube / Joey Salads
Experiment: How easy is it to kidnap a child?
This social experiment will cause goose bumps even for non-parents. Because here a man tests how easy it is to kidnap a child ...
It is the biggest fear of parents: someone could kidnap their own child. The idea is pure horror. But again and again children disappear worldwide without a trace. Of course, parents try to prevent this by telling their children again and again that they are not allowed to speak with strangers and that they are not allowed to go with them. But can the children, at the moment of temptation, put these admonitions into action?
How easy is it to take a child without anyone noticing it? This question has also asked the Youtube star Joey Salads. He usually plays tricks with a hidden camera, but this time it will be less funny. His filmed social experiment is deeply disturbing.
With a small dog under his arm, he addresses children in a playground. He lets her pet the dog and asks her if they want to see the other puppies at his home. Enthusiastic about the cute dog, the kids walk with Joey without mistrust. Even hold his hand, which he offers them. It takes only a few minutes.
A shock to the mothers who are privy to see on a bank nearby how unsuspecting their sons and daughters go with the man completely unfamiliar to them. All mothers insist that they tell their children every day that they should not have contact with strangers. And yet: In an emergency, their children would now be in the hands of a stranger!
With his video Joey Salads wants to draw attention to how quickly children can be manipulated and their innocence can be exploited. "Over 700 children are kidnapped daily, that's a quarter of a million a year, " Salads says at the end of the clip, asking, "Are your children safe?"
