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Man in the park calling a baby sexy - aibu to consider reporting?

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Wiltingasparagusfern · 19/04/2025 15:32

Just that really. A man in the playground kept singing SEXY at a baby (like that liberty X song tune) and also saying “are you a sexy girl? Are you going to be a sexy girl! SEXY!” Think she was his granddaughter. Her dad was also there.

Didn’t say anything as I was on my own, but there were other parents there too. He was doing it repeatedly. Left the park feeling nauseated and just wondering if it was some yucky family in-joke but well what if he’s abusing that baby or other children? Don’t know his name but know they are local and the baby’s name. Baby was between a year and 18 months I would say.

It was so ODD. I don’t know if it’s reportable or how that would work so please do advise. I have never come across something like this in my life!

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/04/2025 15:37

Christ alive, what's wrong with The Wheels on the Bus?

Wiltingasparagusfern · 19/04/2025 15:36

ChangestoHE · 19/04/2025 15:34

I don’t think it’s a very good way to speak to a child but I doubt SS will be interested at all .

Yeah that’s what I thought too, must be a very high threshold for reporting. It just made me feel totally sick and worried for the child

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PowderMonkeys · 19/04/2025 15:35

This is a (admittedly incomprehensible) thing some people do. I’ve seen women refer to their own babies and toddlers as ‘sexy’. I think it’s a combination of not being very bright, having a minimal vocab, and thinking of ‘sexy’ as the highest compliment you can pay to anyone’s looks. Yes, even a baby’s.

No, I don’t think it suggests that man was likely to be abusing that baby, just that he’s an idiot.

ChangestoHE · 19/04/2025 15:34

I don’t think it’s a very good way to speak to a child but I doubt SS will be interested at all .