'The schoolyard assaults, armed robberies, murders, and, yes, the grandparent scam, have me wondering whether my own grandparents are turning over in their graves.' — Bob Wakeham
BOB WAKEHAM: As insidious crimes senior scams invade N.L. and more violent crimes occur, we're losing our naivety that nothing bad can happen here
And, sadly, as we discovered this past week, the grandparent scam is no longer a mainland or North American crime, but, in fact, is another example of the type of ugliness that for so long we could observe from afar with a certain amount of detachment, even smugness, as in “that’d never happen in Newfoundland.” These types of nasty occurrences are now taking place here in relatively recent times with disconcerting, if not frightening, regularity.
Mom, in her early 80s at the time, and living in New Jersey, kept the entire matter to herself for quite a while, not wishing initially to expose, on one hand, the fact that, as she had originally believed, a grandchild had broken the law. I made the perfunctory calls to the police and provided whatever details of the crime I could, but the money was never recovered, even though arrests were eventually made. As second teen charged with attempted murder, community rallies around victim of attack at St. John's high schoolAs for my mother, I’m not sure the trauma of that event ever disappeared entirely, a life-shattering event she never spoke of again, at least not to me.
Now, there might come a time when I won’t be as sharp of mind or tongue , but, in the meantime, I will continue to resurrect my Corner Tavern persona in dealing with con artists, and hope the police find ways to make it extremely difficult for these criminals to ply their abominable trade.
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