The following information is provieded to you for your information only!!! Please remember to contact your local law enforcement if you feel/think that you or your child has been abused in any way!

Most sex offenders are quite proficient at convincing their spouse, family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors that he or she is not a child molester or sex offender. It is also important to understand that even though a person has one or more characteristics associated with being a child molester, it does not always mean that he or she has not yet acted upon his or her urges to abuse a child. It does mean that they should be supervised around children if allowed to have access to them at all.
 

Overly interested in children

Intentionally arranges time alone with children

Shows an unusual interest in or makes inappropriate comments about the sexual development of children

Initiates inappropriate contact with children

Volunteers to provide free care or transportation to children

Volunteers much of his/her free time to be with children

Gives expensive and often inappropriate gifts to children

Offers to take the child fishing, camping or other places alone

Talks to children on the Internet, on the phone, or sends postal mail

Very few pedophiles or child molesters are able to resist their powerful urges to initiate sexual contact with children. As a result, they accept employment where children are easily approached, have hobbies giving them easy access to children or they actively pursue children by befriending a child’s parents. Many times they can be found attending events for children, coaching children's sports teams, chaperoning camping trips, frequenting video arcades, or offering free baby-sitting services to friends, family, and neighbors with children. His or her whole life is centered on children. Often a child molester carefully seduces his victims and can go undetected for thirty years or longer.