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About:-- K.I.D. is a private, not-for-profit committee dedicated to protecting children from sexual molestation and bureaucratic abuse/neglect/endangerment.   We are not affiliated with Kidsindanger.com, a profitable child safety business, however we approve of their goals and plans.  What are the greatest dangers children face today? Murder, sexual abuse, sexual slavery, slave labor, molestation by family members, teachers, coaches, and others who work with children, even inside state-run foster-child programs.  Have you ever received an email invite to a child porn site?  Click here to find out what to do: Report Child Porn To FBI

Andrew Vachss Children's rights expert, best-selling author, lawyer, editor

Adults In Danger: There is no such thing as a willing porn subject. How can you help?

Baby Safety Baby-proof your home

Bill O'Reilly Host of The No-Spin-Zone (Fox TV) who fights tirelessly for tougher prosecution of child predators

Bullies Teach your child to be assertive. How teachers can deal with bullies at school

Child Slavery The worst danger children face world-wide

Child Porn:  How you can help stamp it out

Child Porn: How to report it. It won't go away until everyone does

Child Predators: Is there one living near your child's school or your home?

Internet Safety How to let your children use it safely

Natural Disasters: How to protect your family

Neighborhood Safety How to keep your neighborhood safer

Predator At School?  Does your school have a teacher or coach who preys on kids?

Protect Children:  Article byAndrew Vachss (the greatest protector of children today)

Sale Of Children Protocol Pres.Bush ratifies protocal on children's rights

School Safety  What kinds of dangers do children face at school?

Sibling Rivalry  Do your kids fight a lot?-- What to do about it

Street Safety  Teaching kids traffic savvy

Terrorism How to help your children deal with their fear

Verbal Abuse At School:  Is your child's teacher doing it? How to deal with it.  Suggestions for teachers on controlling an unruly classroom without yelling

Verbal Abuse At Home: How parents can have peace and quiet without yelling

72-Hour Emergency Kits: Many great kits available at good prices, with group rates

What has K.I.D. accomplished? 

• Publicly criticized Gov. Grey Davis in the L.A. Times  for failing to pass the Amber Alert Law, which could have saved the lives of two little girls if it had not been shelved.
• Publicly criticized the Utah State Legislature for failing to pass Jessica’s Law, which mandates a minimum sentence for children predators.
• Publicly opposed abortion verbally and in writing to the media and elected officials with the argument that society, using the abortion platform, views children as a negative side-effect of sex rather than intelligent life forms.  No candidate who supports abortion  can claim to protect children.  We oppose abortion except in cases of rape, incest, if the mother's life is in danger, or the fetus has catastrophic damage such as missing heart or brain. We oppose partial-birth abortion because there is never a medical need for it.
• Instrumental in the recall of Gov. Grey Davis due to his procrastination in passing the Amber Law that allows posting of child abductions on freeway marquees.  We contacted various politicians and influential people to inform them of our position and ask for their support (no money was given to KID at any time).
• Fought Australia’a decision to withdraw its Olympic Invitation to a Southern California Marching Band after the students had worked for several years for the money for the trip.  Our letters stating that this was emotional child abuse were published in Australian newspapers.  Subsequently the public outcry forced the Olympic Committee to rescind their decision.
• Wrote letters to City Councils and local representatives in Orange, Alameda, and Riverside Counties, to State and U.S. Senators and Representatives, the Governor, and the President in favor of stricter sentencing and tougher laws for child sex predators.
• Gave information to the FBI about sex predators in the U.S. and in other countries and turned in hundreds of porn websites to the FBI Innocent Images Task Force (IITF) and the Justice Department.
• Opposed the same-sex marriage amendment in California with the argument that it causes gender confusion in children and downgrades the role of mothers and that of feminine, sensitive women.
• Participated in lobby against teaching same-sex attraction as part of California sex education because it would increase bisexuality and bisexual marriages, which threaten children due to higher divorce rate and emotional unavailability on the part of the bisexual partner as a father/mother and a spouse.
• Wrote to grocery stores that carried products harmful to children that were at child-level and could be reached by little fingers. 
• Lobbied stores to stop displaying magazines with revealing and discriminatory cover photos in places where children are subjected to them, because it teaches children that women are objects.
• Lobbied various school districts and the State Supt. of schools to allow kids to wear hats to school to prevent skin cancer.
• Lobbied the City and School Board for crosswalks near schools and crossing guards in the city of Corona.  It now has more crossing guards than any city in Riverside County.
• Lobbied the OUSD School Board for critical repairs at Anaheim Hills Elementary School that would have endangered children if neglected, such as a collapsed roof in the library, an overcrowded parking lot, flooding septic tanks, and doors with splinters in them.
• Lobbied in favor of a road extension in Pleasanton, CA, in the face of the Sierra Club’s opposition.  The road would allow families safer access to an Elementary School.
• Lobbied various school districts and the State Supt. of schools for more money for books so each classroom has a set, allowing students to leave their books at home and making their backpacks lighter to prevent back injury.
• Lobbied various school districts and the State Supt. of schools to keep students indoors when temperatures reach three digits, especially sports teams and marching bands, in order to prevent heat stroke.
• Sent medical reports and studies to area schools and school districts about the dangers of skin cancer, heat stroke, smoke inhalation from wildfires, and heavy backpacks.
• Lobbied Temecula city and school officials for changes on roads around schools to make them safer for children and their parents, including Chaparral, Temecula Valley, Great Oak High Schools and various elementary schools.  This included a legislative that allowed the city to have control of Hiway 79 instead of Caltrans to improve safety of ingress and egress to Chaparral High.
• Lobbied Temecula public works officials for road safety improvements in Temecula, where four students were killed in one day when an illegal alien chased by Border Patrol ran a red light and hit them..
• Lobbied City Officials for a hospital in Temecula.
• Lobbied Inland Valley Hospital for better service in their maternity ward when they started turning women in labor away instead of calling in off-duty doctors.
• Wrote letters to the media to demand that they stop persecuting famous children such as Princes William and Harry, Pres. Bush’ daughters, and Elizabeth Smart when they were exploited and criticized by the Press.
• And more....

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Potter on crusade to keep kids safe

July 20, 2006

Byline: DIANE REED

Anaheim Hills News (Orange County Register, CA, USA)   
 

Adrienne Potter is doing her best to make the world a safer place for children.
 

The Anaheim Hills mother of two turns in pornographers and pedophiles to police, the FBI, Scotland Yard and Interpol. And her award-winning Web site kidsread.net details how others can do the same.

Kidsread is a safe site filled with stories and learning activities. It also offers a space where parents learn how to protect their children.

The death of a neighborhood boy – hit by a car 15 years ago – and the molestation of two relatives spurred the stay-at-home mom into action. She founded the Web site a decade ago with financial help from her husband, John.

"I first put up the safety information for parents," she said. "Later, I added the children's stories, to draw parents to the site."

She's had more than 76,800 hits on her site – and she was responsible for turning in both a teacher and a coach to Riverside County police for crimes against children.

"My Web site always turns in porn sites," she said. "We get e-mail from pornographers who use a spider program to collect web addresses that contain the words 'kids' and 'sex.'"

Because her site contains both words, pornographers and pedophiles seek her out – and when they do, she turns them in.

Q. Isn't it difficult to get pornographers arrested, because of the First Amendment?

A. Not really. People don't realize that adult porn sites almost always contain some child porn. That's illegal.

Q. How bad is the material you receive from purveyors of porn?

A. This week I received an invitation to an event in Ireland, that we suspect is a child rape. We turned it over to the Innocent Images Task Force.

Q. How do your family and friends feel about all of this?

A. My family is really supportive. I've been a child safety activist since my first daughter was born and her car seat failed. But, most of my friends don't even know I do this.

Q. Where do you get the stories for kidsread.net?

A.I always told rhyming stories to my kids and my husband loved them and encouraged me to put them on the web. "Oh my Stars it's Mars," teaches kids about the solar system. "What the World is Made Of," is kind of physics 101 in rhyme. There's also a new alphabet poem and a counting rhyme as well of lots of interactive stories for older children.

Q. What do you think about the growing problem of predatory teachers and coaches?

A. I plan to add a component to my Web site warning parents about that, soon. We already caution parents to suspect everyone, but, now we have to warn them against teachers. It is such an abuse of authority. Kids ought to be able to trust their teachers.

Q. Are you aware that school districts hide multi-million-dollar judgments against their predatory teachers, by using a Joint Powers Authority to keep them secret?

A. No, but that shouldn't be allowed. The taxpayers are paying for those judgments.

Q. What keeps you going?

A. It's very rewarding work.

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