How and why do paedophiles get jobs such as Teachers, Priests and Boyscout Leaders?
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Paedophiles are attracted to jobs that will give them easy access to children.  \n\nI don't at all agree with you when you say that "little is being done" about this problem.  In education, for example, anyone who wants to work in a school must undertake a criminal background check.  The problem is with people who are paedophiles, or potential paedophiles but who have no criminal record.  There is also a problem with people who have been suspected but never convicted, in a legal system that has a presumption of innocence until guilt is proven.  I notice that you are from Cheshire and so you will be very aware of the case of Ian Huntley, which was a tragic illustration of the great difficulties that exist in this area.
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I wasn't going to answer this one until I read Kaka's response.\n\nKaka;  you don't know what you are talking about.  Almost all children who get molested are little girls who get molested by a step father, uncle, or older cousin.  If you really understood who is doing the molesting in our society, you would rethink your opinion...  but understanding is probably not your strongest attribute.
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There is no easy answer to this question. Chemistry? Childhood? Abuse? Television? Violence? Environment? Were they molested? A combination of all of these? Or, was it simply just something they decided to do one day? The frightening truth is that no one really knows. There are some clues as to who might become a sexual predator and who might not, but even these are vague and not as dependable as they might seem. The answer to you question lies within each individual sexual predator.
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What about a former Dallas Police Chief?\n\nWhy not, everywhere in society today, you hear of crimes against children. At day care centers, on the internet, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, teachers, police officers, etc. Just because they are a Priest, doesn't mean that you can't trust them with your kids. Considering the number of Priests/Pastors/Ministers in the world today, you not only hear about Catholic Priests committing crimes, but also Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Protestant, etc. It isn't only Catholic Priests commit these crimes.\n\nTo make the assumption that All Catholic Priests are child molesters, just shows the narrow mindedness that you have.
508114
You can't and that's why they are dangerous. They seek out troubled young people and become their "friends". They gain the trust of people needing to be able to trust or talk to someone & then they will destroy the lives of those they impact when the time is right. Don't ever give out your personal information to anyone and never, never be afraid to tell an adult "NO" if you feel something's wrong. You should assume everyone is a predator and take nothing for granted ever. Young people are trusting and obediant by nature and the predators know that.
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I teach at the minute and am the child protection officer at school. I also do support work in a children's home outside of school hours. Obviously both involve working with vulnerable kids. The vetting that you have to go under to get these jobs is immense, so you won't really leave yourself open to any allegations. Once you start, you have to follow set guidelines anyway, so there shouldn't really be a point when anyone can accuse you of anything. One thing to be careful of, is that if you are with a child who is really vulnerable and a bit emotionally unstable, try not to be alone with them, because then obviously if they do make any allegations, it's your word against theirs, and in today's society, you'll automatically be branded unsuitable to work with young people
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These are two separate issues, but two issues that the ignorant and the right wingers like to put together to foment hatred and stir up trouble.\n\nHere is just a little tidbit of information that is available on the Internet for those that bother to look for some of the information that is out there if they bother to try to find out the truth of the matter:\n\n"In a national study of child sexual assault in day care centres in the United States, Finkelhor, Williams, Burns and Kalinowski (1988) found that males were disproportionately represented as sexual abusers despite accounting for only 5 per cent of staff. Yet Finkelhor's group found no offender characteristics which would distinguish the abusers from other staff or people generally. It was specifically reported that stereotypic paedophile characteristics were notably absent. Finkelhor and colleagues made recommendations for the screening of all applicants for day care positions, but did not specify an individual's sexual orientation as a risk factor. A more recent review of studies of sexual abuse in day care also made no reference to offender's sexual orientation as a risk factor (Kelley 1994). \n\nIn a discussion paper focused on men's role in primary education, King (1994) found that there was no evidence of a relationship between homosexual male teachers and paedophile activity. Newton (1978) found that homosexual teachers were no more likely to engage in same-sex sexual abuse than were heterosexual teachers. In a study of child sexual abuse by clergy, Camargo and Loftus (1992) found that there was a clear distinction in terms of masculinity and femininity factors between clergy who were active homosexuals (adult-adult), and those engaged in same- sex paedophile activity. \n\nIn their classic study aimed at determining sexual behaviour and orientation in the community, Kinsey and colleagues (1948, as cited in DiLapi 1989), found that crimes such as child sexual assault had been historically incorrectly attributed to homosexuals and that, if anything, heterosexual males were more likely to be involved in sexual abuse. Despite methodological flaws, and what has been charitably described as a 'minimisation' of the negative effects that sexual abuse has on child victims (Finkelhor 1979), this study was one of the few to attempt to define the prevalence of homosexuals as offenders in cases of child sexual abuse (Freund and Watson 1992). \n\nFinally, studies of offender arousal patterns have indicated that paedophiles and homosexuals have different patterns of response (Freund and Watson 1992), with paedophiles not surprisingly being more aroused by images of children. Overall, what little evidence there is, although flawed, appears to indicate that sexual orientation does not play a part in child sexual assault typologies, and that the assumption that paedophiles who engage in same-sex sexual abuse are homosexuals is more a societal myth than a reality."\n\nHope that helps to answer the question. There is much more info out there for those that want to look and there are more and more studies being done all the time and each and every one of them point to the heterosexuals as being the majority perpetrators of pedophilic crimes but that doesn't suit the agenda of the right wing crowd.
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no i don't think they were pedophiles when going into priesthood. they just had normal human desires for sex. unfortunately there easiest way to get satisfaction was there altar servers in which they had closest contact with.
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They do not target women. They target men while pretending to be girls. It would blow their cover to hit on women as well. As is, it is sick that they have to stoop to such devious behavior to solicit men into compromising positions. I know the thought of these guys being pedophiles is morally repugnant to the majority of society but the idea that they never talk to a teenager or meet with a teenager and get arrested for something they never did is morally repugnant to me. It would be different if the men were soliciting the ficticious girls to go to a building for a party but that is not the case. The ficticious girls are soliciting the men to go to a building for a party and then arresting them if they show up. But, I am certain they are not targeting women.
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You have got to be kidding! The darlings of Corporate crimes get out of prison and get right on with their lives. The rehabilitated former sex offender, who has been through extensive treatment, has his and his families life in danger of vigilante murders. Is denied due process ALL the time. Can't take his children to the park. Can't go for a parent/teacher conference for his/her child. Oh yes, by the way, this goes for the single parents who are rehabilitated former sex offenders. So they can't check on their childs school progress. Attend any function their child may be performing in (which causes most of these children to not get involved in extra curricular activities). So you tell me how those convicted of corporate crimes have it so bad? They still have their money, while the rehabilitated former sex offender (possibly actually innocent) can't use his/her possible college degree and is lucky if he/she can get a job digging ditches. Yes siree, those poor corporate criminals just have it so hard!
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A bunch of sick perverts who want to molest kids and think that it should be legal for men to love boys.  What they seemingly don't realize is that the love they want is really the freedom to molest kids, since their "love" is one sided.  I doubt those boys want molested.
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The vast majority of Catholic priests are not child molesters.  \n\nAnd the vast majority of child molesters are not Catholic priests.  \n\n.
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I work in Social Work and see cases of child molestors who were in fact molested themselves as children.  \n\nWhilst I condem what they do and hate it with a vengence, the person carrying out the molestation needs help every bit as much as the person being molested.  \n\nFrom what I understand of this matter, the person molesting does know it is wrong but seem to want to hurt others as they have been hurt!  It seems to give them back some kind of 'power' or 'control' that was robbed of themselves when they were children when they become the perpetrators back. \n\nI really think these people need a lot of help to give them back their self-worth and dignity or else they may continue to do what they do.
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They have trouble with maintaining healthy trusting relationships with others. If they were abussed by somebody of the same sex then they canot make frieds of the same sex as they tend to be Homophobic.They get real confused because they were molested by a preacher and then other preachers say that if you have homosexual sex it is an adomination and you will go to hell.
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Sexual Predators, Child Molesters, Sexual Deviants...\n\nand Sociopaths who have no conscience for the destruction they put upon their innocent victims!\n\n*You know who they are, the ones they must separate from the general population even in the prison systems because they are so filthy they cannot be put in with even the harshest of criminals.  Instead they are protected in their own little cells...*
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There are more unconvicted pedophiles walking about and working in the school system unbeknownst to anyone.  Although convicted, rights are still granted to them with strict rules about distance to children, etc.  Each city and state makes those laws, so I would encourage you to seek legislation about the matter depending on where you live.  In my opinion, pedophiles should be inhumanely sent to an island in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a volleyball for a companion.
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I seriously doubt it was on their resume.  Unless the teacher in question had been tried and convicted before, there isn't a way of knowing.  You can't ask during the interview if you molest children.  You can't tell one by looking at one.  I don't understand the point of your post.  Do you believe the school interviewers actively chose a sexual deviant as the lesser of two evils?  Would you like to be congratualated on your clever sarcasm regarding an issue that has had a severe impact on real lives?\n\nGood for you-- you're very clever.