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British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]
Well... here is my scarey story....
As many of you know , i wound up living in Poland after falling in love with the place during aid trips to Belarus , and later to a childrens home in Poland...
Some of the people who joined our ventures were fellow Landrover owners who wanted to help the children , and others included two paramedics , a lady who worked in a UK home for abused kids , a Brownie leader... Some of us were approved to work with children , others , including myself , were not...
This was no problem , as my usual way of doing things was to visit the kids at a time arranged with the head of the home , chuck loads of toys , books , computers and bycycles at them , play a few games with them , then scoot off before the kids got too attached to us or us to them...
We would visit the kids several times during our stay in Poland , but i tried to keep the visits short , and on our last day in Poland we would not visit the kids , no traumatic farewells for the children...
However , one time fate took a hand in our plans..... whilst we were on route to Poland , a huge storm destroyed the toilets and washing facilities at the place where we normally camped , and the friend we stayed with , and her friend , the director of the childrens home arranged for us to camp on the football field of the childrens home... we did not know about this untill we arrived at the place...
We were pretty tired after our trip , so we just put up the tents and made the best of it , but i was a little bit shocked to discover we had been given the keys to the childrens home , so that we could use the toilets and showers....
I presume that there was a member of staff on night duty to take care of the kids , but the idea that they would give to keys of the home to a bunch of people they did not know that well was a bit worrying , i talked with them about it the next day , and they said that it was no problem , they knew we were good people....
The down side of camping at the kids home was that the little sods woke up at the crack of dawn and were outside our tents wanting to play games while we were still in a coma , and the last day was a bit of a trauma too....
I had planned to pack up the tents during the night and be gone by the time the kids woke up , but i found out that the director of the home had arranged an English breakfast for us before we left , it would have been very upseting for them if we had refused it...
So , we had a great English breakfast , and after it the kids and teachers sang us some songs to say goodbye , one little boy , realising we were leaving began to cry...very loudly , and others soon joined in , before long several of our group were crying too... this is what my disapearing in the night method is supposed to avoid...
We had a great time with the kids , but it did make me realise that there is a certain innocence about Poland that for sure somebody is going to take advantage of , and not just at the kids home...
I have a friend who is a teacher at a village school , when her car was out of action i used to go and pick her up from the school... if she was not outside when i arrived , i would just walk into the school and look for her , not a problem , no security fences , no cameras , i could just wander around the school till i found her...
I would hate for Poland to become like the UK , where they seem convinced every male is a pedo , but i do think it needs to wise up a bit in the safety of children...
