Is It Newsworthy That Pedophiles Aren’t Strangers?

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

Apparently, it is newsworthy, but while the headline of this article may seem shocking, anyone paying attention to child abuse statistics already knows this is common.

Child predators arrested by FBI were people parents trusted.

Maybe some day the media will figure out that whole grooming thing and stop overstating the risk of strangers and actually educate parents on the real risks to their kids, which include raising kids who become targets for grooming, because they don’t have a safe, solid, home life.

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