About Offenders
Recognizing "Behavior Flags"
Child predators are successful because the average person is often not aware of behavior flags that indicate that something is amiss, and they are often individuals who are both known and trusted. While not every adult who engages in the listed behaviors is an abuser, these "grooming behaviors” are something which every adult who works with children should be aware of and looking for proactively:
1) There are six general stages of grooming:
2) Taking an unusual interest in a child
3) Cultivating a close and/or helpful relationship with the parent or caregiver
4) Giving a child gifts
5) Finding ways to be alone with a child
6) Having escalating physical contact with a child going from non-sexual to sexual
7) Having off-color or sexual discussions
8) Showing pornography to a child
9) Providing a child with drugs or alcohol
10) Encouraging a child to have secrets
11) An "incremental cultivation” of emotional and physical closeness with a child
....... source: www.casashaw.org
Finding Offenders
The FBI has several "Most Wanted" lists that relate to issues of child abuse or the missing:
FBI's Most Wanted -- Be part of the solution
Protect your family, your local community, and the nation by helping the FBI catch the most wanted terrorists and fugitives. You can also help reunite missing persons of all ages with their loved ones. Rewards are offered in some cases. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted
Here are some of the pertinent categories:
Crimes Against Children
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cac
Human Trafficking
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/human-trafficking
Kidnappings and Missing Persons
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap
Parental Kidnappings
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/parent
National/State/Federal Sex Offender and Predator Registries & Related Sites
Department of Justice
State Sex Offender Registry web sites (Including Other Territories)
Child predators are successful because the average person is often not aware of behavior flags that indicate that something is amiss, and they are often individuals who are both known and trusted. While not every adult who engages in the listed behaviors is an abuser, these "grooming behaviors” are something which every adult who works with children should be aware of and looking for proactively:
1) There are six general stages of grooming:
- identify a victim
- gain his or her trust
- fill a need
- isolate the child in a "special” relationship
- sexualize the relationship
- maintain control
2) Taking an unusual interest in a child
3) Cultivating a close and/or helpful relationship with the parent or caregiver
4) Giving a child gifts
5) Finding ways to be alone with a child
6) Having escalating physical contact with a child going from non-sexual to sexual
7) Having off-color or sexual discussions
8) Showing pornography to a child
9) Providing a child with drugs or alcohol
10) Encouraging a child to have secrets
11) An "incremental cultivation” of emotional and physical closeness with a child
....... source: www.casashaw.org
Finding Offenders
The FBI has several "Most Wanted" lists that relate to issues of child abuse or the missing:
FBI's Most Wanted -- Be part of the solution
Protect your family, your local community, and the nation by helping the FBI catch the most wanted terrorists and fugitives. You can also help reunite missing persons of all ages with their loved ones. Rewards are offered in some cases. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted
Here are some of the pertinent categories:
Crimes Against Children
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cac
Human Trafficking
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/human-trafficking
Kidnappings and Missing Persons
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap
Parental Kidnappings
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/parent
National/State/Federal Sex Offender and Predator Registries & Related Sites
Department of Justice
State Sex Offender Registry web sites (Including Other Territories)
Federal Sites
Federal / Military Convictions
- Department of Defense/Freedom of Information Act
- United States Airforce/Freedom of Information Act
- United States Army/Freedom of Information Act
- United States Marines Corps/Freedom of Information Act
- United States Navy/Freedom of Information Act
Federal / Military Convictions