When TikToker Rachael (@steaktik) was six or seven years old, a neighborhood boy locked her and another little girl, Janelle, in a shed and demanded their underwear in exchange for getting out. Janelle was terrified and kept banging on the door.
Rachael negotiated with the boy, who ended up promising her a green and yellow parrot in addition to being let out of the shed. Meanwhile, Janelle was screaming her head off.
Finally, Rachael told Janelle to take off her underwear. She was determined to get this parrot. They threw their underwear out of the shed, and the boy, Scott, ran off.
A couple of days later, Rachael saw Scott down the street and asked where her parrot was. He told her that he would bring something to her house later.
That night, he showed up, tapping on her window. He wasn’t able to get her a parrot, but he handed her a little silver item that he claimed was a single binocular.
It was heavy and seemed expensive, so Rachael stashed it in her mom’s closet. The next day, the police came knocking at the door.
They asked her if a little boy named Scott, who lived down the road, had given her anything. She told them that he was supposed to give her a parrot, but instead, she got this silver tube.
The police told her that they needed to confiscate the silver tube because it was actually a scope for a gun. Scott had somehow broken into someone’s house and taken the scope off their gun.
Rachael’s mom stepped outside to continue talking to the police. When she came back, she told Rachael that they couldn’t talk to Scott anymore because he was in a lot of trouble for stealing the scope.
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She also revealed that Scott had been sneaking into their house at night and stealing her underwear. Apparently, he had a whole drawer full of her underwear.
Rachael asked her mom what she got for her underwear and said that she was supposed to have gotten a parrot for hers. Afterward, she had to fill out an affidavit and meet with a counselor.
Some TikTok users expressed their thoughts on kids learning inappropriate behavior at an early age.
“This is the thing. People are unaware of how early boys start becoming predators. It would scare them,” pointed out one user.
“This is why I told my niece never to be afraid to hurt a boy. If a boy ever makes her feel scared or uncomfortable, I’d be disappointed if she doesn’t get in trouble for doling out a diabolical whooping,” shared another.
“As a child, they teach you about if a grownup does something uncomfortable to you, to tell a trusted adult. They don’t ever mention to girls how boys their own age are just as bad,” wrote someone else.
By Emily Chan
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