Parents often try and figure out what a pedophile looks like, what they think like, what they sound like, and more. But the truth of the matter is that they don’t look any different from anyone else.
I recently talked with George Feder, a regular contributor to this blog, about his experiences with child molesters in prison. He gave me this bit of information:
On Monday, Oprah interviewed four admitted child sex offenders on her program. She had a frank and graphic discussion with them about what they did, and why they did it, attempting to help parents understand the mind of child sex offenders, thus helping them to be aware of behaviors that might raise a red flag. Although Oprah’s program is only an hour long, she has made the entire 2-hour interview available at Oprah.com. Although I have yet to watch the entire 2-hour interview, from what I have seen she is very direct and open, attempting to listen instead of judge for the beneift of understanding and gaining useful insight.
In Lacey, Wash., A 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy are being charged with distributing child pornography, and—if convicted—will be required to register as sex offenders. The Seattle Times reports that the boy was engaged in a relationship with another 14-year-old girl, during which he obtained an explicit picture of her. After the two broke up, the boy sent the picture to the 13-year-old girl, who then distributed it to other classmates.
Local members of parliament in Birmingham, UK, are expressing a concern over a new website called TheRatBook.com. The Rat Book’s website reads:
Our goal has been simple:
To create the UK’s largest crime database, exposing Murderers, Paedophiles, Abusers, Perverts, Terrorists and Violent criminals, with the end result being a safer Britain for ourselves, our families, and our friends.
The Rat Book currently holds over 10,000 criminal profiles, and this figure grows by 100′s of new profiles DAILY – our work never stops.
Whether you use The Rat Book for your own protection, or to expose a criminal who has had an impact on your life (for the benefit of other users), we welcome you to our website.
Thanks to all of our participating agencies and engaged citizens across the US and Canada, our new iPhone app was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first month of its release, making it the most popular crime-mapping mobile app in the iTunes store.
In additon, users completed over 8 million crime searches, getting valuable crime and sex offender information for their homes and neighborhoods. CrimeReports service now publishes crime data for nearly 700 law enforcement jurisdictions, covering over 20% of the US population.
