This is a firsthand update to a story we previously posted:
There was an attempted break in at my daughter's bedroom window at 4:30am in the morning. We initially thought it was earlier, however, after reviewing the time in which our alarm sounded, we now know it was 4:30 am. We found the screen to her window ripped on the lower right corner and the bottom portion of the frame bent upward and pulled from the window. In addition, there are several scrapes on the screen as well. We live in the Parkes, and do not have detection lights. We will be putting them into place immediately! It was around 3:00am that my neighbor heard tapping on her window as well. We did file a report with the St. Johns County Police Department. This is very scary for parents and should be taken very seriously.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Cunningham Creek Elementary--what DIDN'T happen.
Mom Watch is still getting a few emails and comments regarding an incident a few weeks ago at Cunningham Creek Elementary in which it was thought that there was a strange man approaching children outside of the school on Roberts Road.
SJSO reports they did a full investigation and found that incident was untrue.
You can read the full story by clicking here:
jacksonville.com
SJSO reports they did a full investigation and found that incident was untrue.
You can read the full story by clicking here:
jacksonville.com
Monday, November 9, 2009
Monday, October 19th, Cunningham Creek Estates (across from River Oaks)
My family lives in the Cunningham Creek Estates neighborhood--just south of Julington Creek Plantation off SR-13. Sometime between 4:30-5am or so, my 8 year old daughter was awakened by a noise and remembered sitting up in her bed and looking around her room. She then got out of her bed, went to the window, did not see anything and went back to her bed. She could not get back to sleep so she turned on her light and decided to go ahead and get ready for school.
She took a shower and returned to her bedroom to get dressed. As she was dressing, she turned and saw a man looking at her in her window. She froze for a second, saw him blink, then ran out of the room towards the door. She looked back at the window when she got to the door and saw that the man had moved from one side of the window to the other to watch her as she ran out. She said his face was so close to the glass of her window--that he actually fogged up the window around his mouth and nose. She could only see that he was a white male, with possibly blue eyes. By the time she awoke us and we called for police--this person was long gone.
We also think this person had been at her window the prior school day (Thursday) as she was awakened at the exact same time of the morning--and at the time we thought maybe she was getting sick and didn't have a clue that it might have been a noise outside at her window.
St. Johns County Sheriff's office does have a police report on this situation and have exhausted all leads in this case. We may never know who this man was at our window and without fingerprints (there were none)--we really don't have anything to go on.
Please make sure your children's rooms and windows are secure. We did not have an alarm system on the day this happened to our daughter (we do now). If you don't have a security system--I have been told that there are special window accessories you can buy at Home Depot or Lowe's that enable you to keep the window from being opened (bar that fits inside, special clips). We did leave her blinds open a lot--and it was very obvious from the road that a little girl lived in that room--with flowers hanging from the windows--and bright pink walls beaming from the light inside the house. You may want to remove any identifying items that would give away to the outside that a child is living in that room. I always felt so safe tucked back in our neighborhood--I never thought something like this would happen.
I started this blog along with another mother who will be posting what happened to her as well. Her situation (which happened just this past Saturday morning) is very similar to ours and we both are determined to get the word out and let our family, friends, and neighbors in this area know what is happening. Let's hope this person (or people)get the message that we are on the look out--and we will act BEFORE something awful happens in our area. We don't want any regrets,..the price of the possibility of anything happening to just one child is too much to bear.
I cannot leave this post without bringing up that what happened to my daughter was on the same day as Somer Thompson's disappearance well before she even went missing from her walk home from school. As you can imagine, that awful situation has brought about a whole other dimension to my fears for my children--as it has so many moms in our area who are downright disgusted by what we are seeing on the news each day. My hope is that this little blog listing will help families in our area stay informed and aware so we can ensure that these predators of children know that Saint Johns and Fruit Cove is on ALERT--and WATCHING!
Please pass on this blog to all the local families you can--and let's help each other win the battle for the safety of our children in Fruit Cove! God Bless!
She took a shower and returned to her bedroom to get dressed. As she was dressing, she turned and saw a man looking at her in her window. She froze for a second, saw him blink, then ran out of the room towards the door. She looked back at the window when she got to the door and saw that the man had moved from one side of the window to the other to watch her as she ran out. She said his face was so close to the glass of her window--that he actually fogged up the window around his mouth and nose. She could only see that he was a white male, with possibly blue eyes. By the time she awoke us and we called for police--this person was long gone.
We also think this person had been at her window the prior school day (Thursday) as she was awakened at the exact same time of the morning--and at the time we thought maybe she was getting sick and didn't have a clue that it might have been a noise outside at her window.
St. Johns County Sheriff's office does have a police report on this situation and have exhausted all leads in this case. We may never know who this man was at our window and without fingerprints (there were none)--we really don't have anything to go on.
Please make sure your children's rooms and windows are secure. We did not have an alarm system on the day this happened to our daughter (we do now). If you don't have a security system--I have been told that there are special window accessories you can buy at Home Depot or Lowe's that enable you to keep the window from being opened (bar that fits inside, special clips). We did leave her blinds open a lot--and it was very obvious from the road that a little girl lived in that room--with flowers hanging from the windows--and bright pink walls beaming from the light inside the house. You may want to remove any identifying items that would give away to the outside that a child is living in that room. I always felt so safe tucked back in our neighborhood--I never thought something like this would happen.
I started this blog along with another mother who will be posting what happened to her as well. Her situation (which happened just this past Saturday morning) is very similar to ours and we both are determined to get the word out and let our family, friends, and neighbors in this area know what is happening. Let's hope this person (or people)get the message that we are on the look out--and we will act BEFORE something awful happens in our area. We don't want any regrets,..the price of the possibility of anything happening to just one child is too much to bear.
I cannot leave this post without bringing up that what happened to my daughter was on the same day as Somer Thompson's disappearance well before she even went missing from her walk home from school. As you can imagine, that awful situation has brought about a whole other dimension to my fears for my children--as it has so many moms in our area who are downright disgusted by what we are seeing on the news each day. My hope is that this little blog listing will help families in our area stay informed and aware so we can ensure that these predators of children know that Saint Johns and Fruit Cove is on ALERT--and WATCHING!
Please pass on this blog to all the local families you can--and let's help each other win the battle for the safety of our children in Fruit Cove! God Bless!
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