Because I'm not a paedo...
Picture the scene, there I am in Sainsbury's merrily trying to remember what the fuck it was I went there for when I spot a small Asian girl, aged about 3-4 stood in the middle of one of the aisles on her own. Initially I thought nothing of it, assuming her mum had left her there and nipped off to another part of the shop quickly, then I noticed she was damn near in tears and everyone else was pointedly ignoring her. So, realising that the shop assistants were too engrossed in stacking packets of Quavers and the general public was too scared to talk to a strange child lest they be branded a sex offender by the Paedo finder General I decided to see what was up.
"Hello there" said I "Have you lost your mum?"
She looked up at me, and with relief in her eyes, which were now full of tears, nodded silently to me.
"Okay then, shall I help you find her?"
Another nod, this time with a small smile, then the offer of a small hand.
"I'm Keios, what's your name?" I asked
"Kasumi" came the quiet response
"Oh, that's a Japanese name isn't it? I have a cousin called Kasumi!"
Suddenly she became animated "Are you Japanese?"
"Only half, my mum was Japanese"
"So am I! My mummy's Japanese as well! Hajimemashite! Sorry. I don't speak a lot of Japanese."
"Don't worry" I confessed "Neither do I"
So, I took my newfound friend to the customer service desk where her frantic-looking mother was waiting. On seeing her A cry of "Hello mummy! This is my new friend Kei! He's half Japanese as well! He helped me find you!" was let out and much aw-shucksing slightly self concious "It was nothing really"ing was done on my part and many thanks were heaped on me on her part. So, for fucks sake, if you see an obviously distressed child, don't just walk past them for fear that you'll be making yourself a pariah, remember how fucking terrifying the world was when you were that little and see what's wrong! Unless you're the cause of their distress, in which case move along sharpish.
(Keios, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 14:25, 5 replies)

Found the CCTV of your story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7FrOEXqKsc

That's you isn't it?
( 6821isnotmyPIN Bored cig., Sat 11 Feb 2012, 15:05, closed)

Damn. Busted.
(Keios, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 16:21, closed)

I like this.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 15:10, closed)

I like
It's reminded me of a time when I was on the wrong side of the Paedofinder. I was standing a respectful distance back at a Tesco cashpoint at 3pm on a Saturday, but as the woman using the cashpoint saw me she hooked her leg around her trolley, which had a small child sat in it. I thought this was a bit unusual, but worse was when her older daughter walked literally ten feet away to look at one of those ride-on Postman Pat things, and her mother hissed, "Come back here before somebody grabs you".

Those kids are going to be very well-adjusted adults.
(Eukanuba, Sun 12 Feb 2012, 16:08, closed)

I was caught on cctv grabbing a child once
I won't post this up front as it's similar to yours.

The child I grabbed was also Japanese-- full, and spoke no English. Barely spoke at all as she was hardly older than a year herself. I noticed her as there was no other customers in the vicinity, and she was wandering... YIKES, I'd forgotten how fast toddlers can move! I grabbed her just as she was about to toddle down the "up" escalator. And once I'd grabbed her, I realized I'd better be sure to carry her in a way to keep my hands in s full view as possible, and walk where all the cctv bubbles could see me. l bundled her straightaway over to the nearest clerk's counter and asked her to page for this little girl's mum.

I thought I was done, but the clerk LEFT ME with the child, and went to find her supervisor. Don't stores teach their clerks what to do in these situations?! Obviously not. So I tried to entertain the child, whilst still keeping my hands in visible, obvious, innocent places while they paged in English. Which was probably useless as the mum was likely a native Japanese speaker.

It took ages, but eventually a nice Japanese lady came running over in full-panic mode, pushing an empty buggy and calling "Yugi! Yugi!" And chattering her thanks, scoldings to the child, apologising, in broken English and Japanese. What was nice was that Yugi was absolutely unperturbed by it all and chortled and leapt into her grateful mum's arms.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Sun 12 Feb 2012, 19:43, closed)