US police officer's TikTok child safety tips divide opinion – 9Now – Nine

A police officer in the US has amassed millions of views on TikTok by sharing key safety tips to help protect children from predators.Terra Avilla works in the child sex crimes unit as an investigator, and her rules on sleepovers, hugging strangers and using SnapChat have divided some opinions online.But after years of seeing the tragedy and heartache families have gone through – even the most seemingly innocent activities can.Subscribe to the Today newsletter here. (Nine)A police officer in the US has amassed millions of views on TikTok by sharing key safety tips to help protect children from predators. (TikTok/Terra Avilla)No sleepovers at friend’s housesTerra admitted she enjoyed sleeping over friend’s houses as a child, but in the past 13 years in her job, she has seen too many horrible things happening at them.”My husband and I made it a hard and fast rule at our house that our daughters are not going to have sleepovers,” she told Today Extra.Terra said statistically it is often someone the child and family know who will attack them and too many parents she meets after the fact are under the same misconception “it’s the boogieman who will grab your kid in a dark
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