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Date / Time: 2/27/2008 12:21 AM UTC

Don't Recycle Predators... The Internet Allows Our Kids To Travel Far Away From Home And Alone

You'll Never Get Away With That"!  What if that was the thought instilled in the mind of every predator? How many less victims do you think there might be?

To paraphrase our guest, Lauren Ayers Ph.D., on today's CyberHood Watch radio show, if there were two criminals and the one said to the other, Let's break into the White House they'll have plenty of items." The other criminal might say, "You'll never get away with that." And he would be right. That's the message we need to instill in a predator's mind when he harbors any thoughts of contemplating a criminal sexual act of a child or young adult.

Lauren's goal is to make sexual abuse of kids a crime of the past. How might we accomplish this? One of several suggestions offered are creating a "Family Policy". First, it opens a dialog so kids are not left alone to deal with the abuse (literally or preventive). A parent will make it clear what they would do (removing the child from the equation) these are young minds and not equipped to handle the advances of the perpetrator. The family policy would broadcast clearly that as a parent, "I will report suspicious behavior to a "Mandate Reporter" (teacher, nurse, or other trained and approved licensee) and let them evaluate the information and file a report if deemed necessary.

Another suggestion is to establish with your children that there are no secrets. If there are any secrets they should be shared with the parent, and the parent will if it is appropriate, take action. Secrets associated with embarrassment or shame will sever a bond with the parents.

Children need to be taught an escape hatch. Teach your children not to get into what they can't get out of. For example, a car, a motorcycle, a boat, a home, etc.

There needs to be a shift from sex abuse programs for children to sex abuse programs for parents.

Our kids are not law enforcement personnel nor should they be detecting and reporting sexual crimes. Which is one reason why our current sex prevention is increasing the risk of our kids. Sexual predators understand all to well the current reporting system and can easily manipulate and confuse the young minds so they don't know how to report what happened.

If we don't become responsible cybercitizens, create sex abuse programs for parents and remove the burden from kids to police the behavior of sexual predators, we'll end up recycling predators until another has recorded 36,000 sexual abuse cases like convicted molester, Dean Arthur Schwartzmiller.

To Listen to the Show with Lauren!

To get your copy of: How to Protect Kids from Child Molesters, by Lauren Ayers, Ph.D.

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