Man charged over alleged child approaches – Coffs/Clarence

A man has appeared in court today charged following an investigation into an alleged child approaches on the Mid North Coast last week.

About 4pm on Thursday 4 April 2024, two girls, aged 10, were leaving a shop on Lawson Street, Red Rock, when a man allegedly gestured at them to approach him. The girls ignored the man and walked away.

About 4.45pm, a 9-yearold girl and 7-year-old boy were walking along Park Street, when a man pulled up in a vehicle and spoke to them. The pair ran away before the man allegedly approached and spoke to them again, before they ran off.

About 5.15pm, the same man was allegedly seen hiding in bushland at Little Beach and police were notifed.

Offcers from Coffs/ Clarence attended and commenced inquiries into the incidents.

Following inquiries and a public appeal, investigators arrested a 30-year-old man after he attended Coffs Harbour Police Station about 6pm yesterday (Monday 8 April 2024.

He was charged with three counts of stalk/ intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (personal) and drive motor vehicle during disqualifcation period. The man appeared before Coffs Harbour Local Court today (Tuesday 9 April 20240, where he was granted conditional bail to appear before the same court on Wednesday 24 April 2024.

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On judging others…by Nigel

Dawe

Krishnamurti once very matter-of-factly said, “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” judgements of others.

Oblivious to their own weaknesses and foibles they pass comment like all-seeing magistrates that reside ever-righteously above the rest of us.

Relatedly, albeit very discerningly, Albert Camus once noted, “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.” But judged they are, because their judgements of others are just thin smokescreens to their own brittle insecurities, that get fully revealed within the harshness of their petty, self-concocted assessments.

While seemingly set beyond all retort, judgements are often just the fickle tip of a much deeper sociological iceberg. An iceberg that doesn’t necessarily pose a threat to anyone who ‘knowingly’ sails near their jagged mass of frozen emotional jetsam. Brilliantly, like the captain of an arctic icebreaker, Bertrand Rusell once said, “Take care of your inner attitude to people: let it not be satirical or aloof, set yourself to try and get inside their skins and feel the passions that move them and the seriousness of the things that matter to them. Don’t judge people morally: however just one’s judgement, that is a barren attitude.”

And ‘a barren attitude’ is something that can only sustain and support the expression of full-blown ignorance, and a selfrighteousness that borders on irreversible delusion.

As if laying down the ultimate challenge, if not lesson, in terms of how a judging de‘fault’ can be corrected in anyone’s personality, J.