Child harness
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A child harness is a safety device worn by children when walking with a parent or carer. Child harnesses are most commonly used with toddlers and children of preschool age, though they may also be use
Mother and child with safety harness
Typical 1970s child harness from the United Kingdom
Elaine Stephen pictured with her MBE for Services to Child Safety in 2011
Child wearing a character harness
Murder of James Bulger
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On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. Thompson and Venables led
Child harness
…hands-free adaptions to the established designs of child harnesses were also developed in the late 1980s. In the United Kingdom, following the 1993 James Bulger murder case, sales of child harnesses "dramatically increased" and some stores sold out when "trying desperately to meet demand." Two years later, child harnesses…
James Bulger
Mug shots of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson taken at the time of their arrest
The Red Bank Secure Unit in 2022