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The problem of Child Abuse in Schools

Posted On : Jan-18-2012 | seen (870) times | Article Word Count : 545 |

The excerpt below is from the autobiography of a child molester: He was raised by devout Christian parents and rarely missed church.
The excerpt below is from the autobiography of a child molester: He was raised by devout Christian parents and rarely missed church. As an adult he was faithful as a church member, never drank alcohol, was never on illegal drugs and straight in terms of his preferences. Married and with his own child. He was a Choir Director at his church. Everyone seemed to like him. He was a volunteer in numerous civic community functions. He had a well-paying career job. He was considered "well-to-do" in society. But from the age of 13-years-old he enjoyed molesting little boys. He never victimized a stranger. All of his victims were friends.

I know this child molester very well because he is me!!!! One of the most dangerous assumptions that people have of a child molester is that a person who appears and acts normally cannot be one. Right from priests to domestic servants, teacher, tutor, friends and relatives, anybody could be a child molester. According to Dr Priyanka Gupta, most child molesters pose a dual life. A molester, many times could be someone that society would otherwise label as a 'good person,' someone who the community believes has a good character and would never do such a thing. Most molesters gain access to children by employing a variety of tactics while concealing their activities. Many of them develop charm through their mannerisms, to be likeable to children.

Those that take up jobs as domestic servants, ensure your confidence is won before they target your child. Normal, healthy people distort reality to create a kinder, gentler world than actually exists". This makes them vulnerable, attracted towards the softest target group- children. Studies on children have shown that most often the molesters targeted children who had family problems, were alone, lacked confidence, and were young, small or provocatively dressed. Most molesters work on a plan which involves winning the child's friendship apart from the family's friendship and their trust the child becomes vulnerable and you can molest the child. Children are threatened to keep their mouth shuts or they will kill themselves. As a result, children often have great difficulty sorting out who is responsible for the abuse and frequently blame themselves for what happened. This leads to, a sense of guilt and feelings of conflict, embarrassment, to disclose the matter.

Many boys avoid disclosing abuse with the fear that they will be labeled homosexuals. Some acts, like fondling leave no physical traces especially if the child is examined more than 48 hours after the abuse and the molester can get away easily. Actual research, however, shows that, as a whole, our society continues to under-react and under-estimate the scope of the problem because from what is seen as a trend, child abusers are rarely identified or prosecuted. Many a times out of pleasure and a so called “ new feeling “ that children develop towards their molester, makes them prone to defending them, with false stories. This brings in them an element of schism and their basis of love is highly distorted as it is now mixed with forbidden feelings and not normal or healthy feelings.

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