Paedophiles
Paedophiles may appear perfectly respectable and 'nice'. They are extremely crafty and intelligent at worming their way into your confidence so that you trust them alone with your children.Paedophiles do not necessarily look dirty, weird or creepy or act suspiciously - they often behave like everyone else and look 'normal'.Paedophiles come from all classes, professions, racial and religious backgrounds.The majority of known paedophiles are male, though some women abuse children.Centre for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents last year of adults using the Internet to entice children. Paedophiles find victims by hanging round places children are likely to go, such as:
+ arcades
+ school premises
+ shopping centres
+ amusement or theme parks
+ playgrounds
+ parks
+ swimming baths
+ fairs
+ fast food chains
Shocking facts about paedophiles.
+ Each year in England and Wales up to 5- 9 children are abducted and killed.
+ Every day there are on average 10 sex attacks on children.
+ 64% of convicted paedophiles re-offend 4 or more years after their first conviction.
+ 30% of the paedophiles had each committed offences against 10 to 450 victims, 70% had between 1 to 10 victims.
+ Home office figures show us there are approximately 110, 00 convicted paedophiles that live in Britain (experts would put that figure at more like 230,000) and only 5,000 are on the sex offender's register.That means 95,000 live in communities and we don't have the right to know who or where they are.
+ 95% of paedophiles are male.
+ 66% of paedophiles are known to the child, 34% are strangers.+ 48% of the paedophiles found their victims through babysitting.Be suspicious if someone is more interested in your children than in you, someone who always wants to baby-sit, take your children on outings -someone who wants to get your children alone.

4 Comments:
sophia this is wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Possibly your statistics are different in Britan, but if not let's clarify some issues, at least here in the US. Also, I'm sure you didn't pull your numbers out of the air. Would you be willing to share your source?
A 2003 US Department of Justice report says that 5.3% of sex offenders re-offended within three years, and only 3.3% of sex offenders with crimes against children re-offended within three years.
You might also be interested to know that a three-year Colorado Department of Correction study showed a 0-3% recidivism rate for sex offenders who received 40-50 treatment sessions.
You state 66% of sex offenders are known to their victim. The actual number from the DOJ report is between 90 - 93%.
Would you rather spend money on registries and residency restriction laws which drive sex offenders underground, causing them to be more likely to re-offend, or on treatment, with a 0% recidivism rate in some studies? Remember that registries and residency restrictions only "help" in the tiny number of cases where a known sex offender commits another crime (5.3%) against an unknown victim (10%). In other words, these laws only help in 0.53% of all sex offense cases!
I agree completely with your "Be suspicious" statements, and add: Spend time with your children, be involved in their lives, know their friends, their friend's parents, and any other adults your child spends time with. Listen to your children, and trust their instincts when they don't want to spend time with a "trusted" adult.
There is no excuse for the victimization of a child, but we should be aware of the reality rather than succumbing to the paranoia.
For more sex offender issues, see my blog.
to sophastos
amen sister. i belive every word you have written.
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