The article highlights the manipulative strategies used by child predators to gain access to their victims. It emphasizes that predators assess their targets and their communities, often befriending guardians to minimize suspicion. Research shows that offenders typically befriend parents, offering favors and creating situations where they can spend time with children. This strategy isolates the victim and erodes the protective buffer provided by guardians, making it crucial for parents and teachers to learn about these tactics. Awareness serves as the first defense against potential predators.
People are often unaware that successful predators play a long game. They start with their target's community... gaining positions of trust to turn the child's guardians into unwitting allies.
Researchers Reuben Lang and Roy Frenzel interviewed 52 incest offenders... found that the typical modus operandi is to befriend parents and offer to babysit targeted victims.
If a child reports the predator, the guardians will experience denial at being duped... the protective buffer begins to erode, isolating the child.
Some kids are hungry for kindly adult attention, especially if it comes with gifts.
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