In Kansk (Krasnoyarsk Territory), parents mistook a man who saved a girl from stray dogs for a pedophile.
This is reported publication “Sibirmedia”. Initially, the following message began to circulate in parent chats: “Dear parents, today at 18:00 in our area, a stranger tried to pull an elementary school child by the handle of a backpack behind him. The child was able to break free and run away. Now the police are interviewing the parents of the child, studying the video from the cameras. If anyone was a witness, please speak up. Please be vigilant. Don’t let your children out of your sight. Especially at night time.”
The city police then issued an official announcement. It says that the father of a student of Lyceum No. 1 of the city of Kansk addressed them. According to his daughter, an unknown person in the courtyard of the educational institution frightened her by pulling her backpack and telling her to go with him.
The police found that on the day of the incident, dogs ran into the territory of the lyceum. Seeing them, the girl was afraid to pass by the animals. “A man who was standing nearby, the father of one of the lyceum students, noticed this, grabbed the handle of the schoolgirl’s backpack and with the words:“ Let’s go with me together, ”led her past the dogs. The clarified circumstances, as well as the fact that the man did not have any illegal intentions, were brought to the parents of the child, ”the police said in an official statement.
Recently, public attention has been riveted to incidents with stray animals due to a tragic incident in Transbaikalia, where a 7-year-old girl died after an attack by stray dogs.
