Protecting Children From Predators
| Updated: 7/16/2009 9:12 pm |
Published: 7/16/2009 3:19 pm
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Many of us have an idea of who may be a sexual predator. Many times we think of a stranger as the threat, but in about 9 out of every ten cases the child molesters are someone the child knows.
A green country mother told FOX23 about her family’s tragedy. She found out two of her children were molested by her husband, the father and step-father of her son and daughter.
She says she had no idea there was a problem until her son finally told her after he had been abused for 8 years.
She said, “I absolutely felt terrible guilt that I did not know. I thought I was the most over protective parent with all four of my children I though that I was protecting my children the best that I could and had no idea that it was happening in my own home.”
Child abuse expert Sharon Doty says the mother is like many parents out there who don’t know how child molesters work.
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