![]() ![]() It’s horrifying that there are people out here that take advantage of innocent kids.” School Resource Officer Sgt. It scares me, some of the stuff that I’ve seen the kids do. There’s evil in the world and they know how to use these devices just as good as our students. SWAT stands for ‘safety while accessing technology.’ The kids put the programs together and talk to other kids to educate them on the dangers of technology, how to spot cyber predators and more. “We would give school resource officers the lesson plans, have them facilitate a club, which is Cyber SWAT.” We contracted with the National White Collar Crime Center to develop a program that we could teach kids to educate kids,” he explained. Kids, listen to kids, adults listen to adults. “The peer-to-peer program is a proven program to work, whether it be adults, children, whatever. It took us quite a while to understand that,” said Eddie Worth, president of the Safe Surfin’ Foundation who has also traveled the country to spread awareness and change how to reach kids. “Kids weren’t really listening to what adults had to say. Now in her 30s, she’s been all over the country raising awareness about what can happen.Īmanda sits with her mom, Vicki Johnson. She teamed up with organizations like the Safe Surfin’ Foundation to educate kids and parents about internet safety. What happened in Winchester is something Amanda never wants to happen again. I was told that he’d be in prison for the rest of his life,” said Johnson. He had, I believe, two additional charges for the ICAC unit officer. He has been recharged with the suspended sentence that he got on Amanda’s case and the Williamsburg case. This time he tried to take an ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) officer, so he was arrested immediately. And a little under seven years, he tried to take another child. “He served his 14 years and in 2013, he was released from prison. I hate with a passion that this happened to my daughter, but it’s what finally stopped him.” Vicki Johnson The little girl from Williamsburg, he had already raped three times, but he told each one of these girls the same thing, ‘If you tell, I’m going to kill your mom and I’m going to kill you,’ and neither one of them said a word. He was chatting with about 60 kids online when they confiscated his computer. “I was told that it would take a long time to recover, and I could probably never have kids,” remembers Amanda, who vowed that night to educate her friends and others, so it did not happen to anyone else. ![]() During that night was when the doctor came out and she specifically said to us, ‘This is one of the most brutal rapes and beatings we’ve ever witnessed on a child.’” ![]() “Amanda was in such bad shape we immediately rushed her to the hospital, where she was taken under a doctor’s care immediately. “He went into a cul-de-sac and didn’t get out of the neighborhood, and the state police were able to arrest him at that point,” said her mother. And I remember looking at them thinking, ‘They think she’s dead,’” explained Johnson. “I remember that evening, the police coming to my house and asking me for something that belonged to Amanda, something that had her scent on it. He brought her to a motel just six minutes away from her house, where she was brutally raped, assaulted and tortured. She said the teen was gone for more than five hours when police started combing the area looking for her. ![]() Johnson realized something was wrong soon after when she never showed up at her babysitting job. Taken by 36-year-old Donald Lee Williams Junior. “I went walking up to the house I was supposed to babysit at and during that walk, a truck pulled up and literally no sooner than he said my name, ‘Amanda,’ and I turned, I was in the truck and taken.” Amanda Staubs The middle schooler told her mom she had to babysit at a house in the neighborhood, and that is the day everything changed. He knew when I would leave and come back,” said Staubs. He knew when my older sister would go to school. He knew when my parents would leave for work. Neighborhood watch even reported a mysterious vehicle, but she says that it was not really investigated. He drove to the city of Winchester, where he stalked her for a couple of weeks. Staubs said she gave him tiny details over time, and he was able to figure out her school’s name and cheer schedule. Amanda Staubs (Courtesy of Vicki Johnson) ![]()
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