Our message is that children should recognize and avoid certain situations, rather than certain people.
This is a very rare type of a situation. The danger to children is much greater from people they know than from people they don't know.
They are quite brazen and that is a different kind of perpetrator than the kind that tries to get close to the family.
We encourage parents and guardians to maintain open and frequent communication with their children.
We've got scenarios in which parents were making actual gut-wrenching decisions to hand their child up to the front of a line of transport to get them safe. Parents performed heroic acts to try and keep their children safe, sometimes to the detriment of their own safety.
If you have a very young child, many may not be able to say their name or tell you who they are, and that's an obstacle. You've also got children who may be shy or too frightened and may not be able to talk to somebody right away.
You had absolute harrowing, dire circumstances where it's very easy for me to see how kids were separated, because they were just trying to get out.
We know many people didn't survive and we don't know how many yet. That's going to impact children in shelters.
