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Childhood Grooming By Sexual Predators
Child abuse is a subject many would rather sweep under the rug because it is such a vile and heinous crime against humanity. Yet, child abuse continues to happen and will continue to prevail until we bring it out of the darkness and into the light of day.
The main two things child sexual predators have going for them is the fact no one wants to talk about or admit sexual abuse occurs and the silence of society.
This piece is going to challenge the silence and will make an in-depth examination of how child predators use grooming of children to trap and abuse their victims.
What is Grooming?
Grooming is when a predator befriends and establishes a connection with a child and sometimes their family on an emotional level. The predator lowers the child’s inhibitions against them by using well-known techniques so that they can use the child for their sexual perversions.
Child grooming, used to lure minors into sexual situations with adults, is often used to trap them into child trafficking, child pornography, or childhood prostitution.
To be quite clear, children are in no way responsible for falling for the lures of child predators. Children, all children, are the innocent victims of someone who wishes to use them for either personal abuse or…
