Prevention

Learn the facts and understand the risks. Realities – not trust – should influence your decisions regarding your child.
Minimize Opportunity – “If you eliminate or reduce one-adult/one-child situations, you will dramatically lower the risk of sexual abuse for your child.”
Talk About It – Children often keep abuse a secret, but barriers can be broken down by talking openly about it.
Stay Alert – Don’t expect obvious signs when a child is being sexually abused. Signs are often there but you have to spot them.
Make a Plan – Learn where to go, who to call, and how to react.
Act on Suspicions. A child’s wellbeing may depend on it.
Get involved.
A predator doesn’t look like the “boogeyman.”
Molesters are typically NOT strangers.
They use deliberate tricks and ploys to gain a child’s (or our) trust.

Red Flags

Someone who repeatedly ignores social, emotional or physical boundaries or limits.
Someone who singles out one child as a “special friend”, lavishing them with a lot of extra attention, gifts, flattery – developing an age-inappropriate relationship with that child.
Someone who often insists upon or suggests a lot of uninterrupted “alone” time with a child.
Someone who refuses to let a child set any of his or her own limits.
Someone who insists on hugging, touching, kissing, tickling, wrestling with or holding a child even when the child does not want this physical contact or attention.
Someone who shares inappropriate personal or private information with a child, that should normally by shared with adults only.
Someone who frequently points out sexual images or tells inappropriate, suggestive stories or jokes with children present.
Someone who seems overly interested in the sexuality of a particular child or teen, and talks repeatedly about the child’s developing body.
Someone who appears to be “too good to be true”, frequently offering to baby sit different children for free; taking children on special outings alone; often buying children gifts or giving them money for no apparent reason – especially an adult who does not have children of their own.
Someone who frequently walks in on children/teens in the bathroom.

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