The Serpents Among Us - How to Protect Your Children From Sexual Predators - A Police Investigator's Perspective

The author, who is a police investigator and has worked in a major crimes-special victims unit for nearly 20 years, shares his personal perspective to parents and guardians on how to protect their children from sexual predators. It will educate parents about * how to recognize when a child predator is in their midst; * how to protect their child from that predator; * how to recognize if their child has already been offended by a predator; and * what to do if their child discloses that they have been offended by a predator. For the adult reader who was sexually molested as a child, it is the author's hope that this resource may assist you making some sense out of what happened to you, and help you understand that it wasn't your fault. First, the book will lay the frame work to help parents understand the common tactics that predators use to gain access to, seduce, and maintain control of a child. The book then discusses specific defensive counter measures against these tactics. The author offers a dozen specific cases that will allow the reader to apply the principles they learned to real-life scenarios that unfold every day all around them.