{"id":7516,"date":"2009-03-10T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/prevention-training-needed-for-kids\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:20:28","slug":"prevention-training-needed-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/prevention-training-needed-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention training needed for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month the Oregonian newspaper reported on the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Alycia Nipp down in Hazel Dell, Wash., which is just north of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Alycia was stabbed to death by a Level 3 Sex Offender on her way home from school Feb. 21, 2009 simply because she took a shortcut through a neighborhood field.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the abductions and murders of 10-year-old Adre\u2019Anna Jackson in Tillicum, Wash., and 12-year-old Zina Linnik in Tacoma, Wash., these past few years, Alycia\u2019s abduction and murder points to the need for mandatory abduction-prevention training in all Washington public school P.E. classes.<\/p>\n<p>So why isn\u2019t Gov. Christine Gregoire and state Sens. Lisa Brown and Mike Hewitt sponsoring a Senate bill this legislative session to support mandatory abduction-prevention training in our public-school P.E. classes? It certainly isn\u2019t because I haven\u2019t begged each of them to do so for quite some time!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jim Curtis<\/p>\n<p>North American Self Defense Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Maple Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month the Oregonian newspaper reported on the abduction and murder of 13-year-old Alycia Nipp down in Hazel Dell, Wash., which is just north of Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}