How to Stop Sex Crimes Against Kids
1. Parent Education
Replace child abuse education programs, like those which teach good touch/bad touch, with parent
education programs. These would teach parents how predators often first seduce parents, and
how low self esteem in parents endangers a child’s safety.
2. Don’t recycle predators.
Prosecute to the full extent of the law.
3. Use mandated reporters.
Investigate concerns about sexual exploitation with a mandated reporter.
Extend and enforce mandated reporting laws, and update training on a regular basis.
4. Teach children safe behaviors:
Two deep, escape hatch, no secrets, hands to yourself.
5. Family abuse policy.
Every family and every organization that deals with children needs a sex crimes policy which
outlines how concerns would be handled.
6. Youthful molesters.
Forty percent of sex crimes against kids are committed by predators who are minors. Adults need to
know the children in a child’s life. Youths who commit sex crimes need court-supervised treatment.
7. Don’t act like a child molester.
Avoid touching, nudity, isolation, sexual talk or secrets.
8. Cyberguidance
Protecting kids on the Internet requires that adults know the Internet as well as kids do.
9. Think like a criminal.
Take stock of children’s lives and arrange safety.
10. Listen with a third ear.
Learn how to hear what kids need to express.