Curtis Garrison

A man was caught in the act recording a young boy over a bathroom stall at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg and the teenagers who caught him handled it with more restraint than most adults could have managed - they confronted him, held him until mall security and police showed up, and made sure he was arrested on the spot. According to the family who shared this, he is being described as a serial predator with videos already saved on his phone, which means this was very likely not his first time. The fact that this happened in a public mall bathroom with other people around and he still felt bold enough to do it should terrify every parent reading this. These boys exchanged numbers with the victim afterward just to make sure he had a copy of the video as proof, even while this man kept begging and saying he would delete it. That alone tells you everything about his intentions. Talk to your kids, talk to your teens, and tell them exactly what these boys did right - they did not let him walk away, and they did not let him talk his way out of it. Would you have handled this the same way? This is what protecting each other actually looks like.