Advocating against child offenders & paedophiles
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Did You Know?
- Generally, the community refer to people who sexually assaults children as "paedophiles", however there is a distinction between a 'paedophile' and a 'situational child sex offender'.
- Paedophiles generally act on their sexual preference for children. They prefer and seek sexual activity with children instead of adults. Paedophiles could be considered more dangerous because they target and prey on children.
- Situational child sex offenders - eg incent offenders - generally prefer adult sexual partners but at times, usually because of convenience, engage in sexual activity with children within the family. This does not mean that these type of offenders cannot also be paedophiles and target non-family victims.
- Common characteristics of paedophiles are:
* majority male * have multiple victims * are usually extra-familial offenders (outside the family structure) * have a long-term and persistent pattern of behaviour * often prefer boys * generally report an attraction to children of a particular age range * have a sophisticated method and/or technique to access, groom and abuse victims * have a tendency to collect extensive quantitites of child pornography and child erotica
- Paedophiles offend against more victims than situational sex offenders because they are usually long-term repeat offenders and therefore commit a larger number of offences.
- It is common for victims of sexual assault to wait for a period of time before they tell someone about the assault.
- Some signs for detection:
* children who have been / are being abused may demonstrate inappropriate or anti-social behaviour * paedophiles tend to keep a collection of child pornography and/or child erotica * paedophiles tend to take photographs/videos of their victims and/or the actual sexual activity.
- Sexual assault offences are generally under-reported for reasons including:
*the non-violent grooming and seduction techniques offenders use to engage in sexual activity with children; * children are coerced over a period of time into participating and not often raped or physically forced into sexual activity. This works in the offenders favour because the child can feel partly responsible for, guilty, embarrassed and ashamed of participating in the sexual activity; * the offenders wear down the inhibitions of the victim which reduces the likelihood the child will report the sexual activity; * the offenders may supply victims with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or other items thereby involving the child in the 'taboo' activity again reducing the chances the victim will report the matter; * the victim may be afraid of the offender; * the child may think if they tell someone they won't be believed; * the child may think if they tell someone the offender will be believed; * some organisations are reluctant to investigate sex offence complaints, eg church groups.
- Most offenders are unable to stop their offending behaviour on their own. Most offenders require treatment or other interventions to decrease / stop their behaviour.
- Sex offenders have a very high likelihood of re-offending upon release especially in the first 12 months following their release.
- Female children are at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted by a situational sex offender.
- Male children are at a higher risk of being sexually assaulted by a paedophile.
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If you have any information, statistics, research etc that you would like to share with us, please send your information to info@littleangels.org.au. |
* Information is obtained from a variety of sources including but not limited to academic research papers, NCA (National Crime Authority), CMC (Crime & Misconduct Commission, Qld), Bravehearts, Parliamentary research papers, Megan's Law, Jessica's Law, Amber Alert, O'Reilly Factor, Dr Phil website, Oprah website, Child Safety websites.
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