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OFFENDER TRAITS

Adults who seem preoccupied with children.
Single adults who work or volunteer with children's clubs/activities.
Adults who work with children and also frequently spend their free time doing "special" things with kids.
Adults who spend time volunteering with youth groups who do not have children in those groups.
Adults who seem to engage in frequent contact with children, i.e. casual touching, caressing, wrestling, tickling, combing hair or having children sit on their lap.
Adults who act like children with children or who allow children to do questionable or inappropriate things.
Adults who want to take your children on special outings too frequently or plan activities that would include being alone with your child.
Adults who do not have children and seem to know too much about the current fads or music popular with children.
Adults that your children seem to like for reasons that you don't understand.
Adults who seem able to infiltrate family/social functions or are "always available" to watch your kids.

PLEASE NOTE: Not all offenders will demonstrate the above characteristics.

FACTORS THAT PLACE CHILDREN AT A HIGHER RISK FOR ABUSE

Age, friendliness, shyness, good manners, naivety, curiosity, or isolation.
Living in a single parent home.
Drug or alcohol abuse by parents.
Parental illness or emotional stability.
Severe marital conflict or domestic violence in the home.
Living in a home with a stepfather or mother's boyfriend.
Previous abuse.
Having a unemployed father or parents that work different shifts.
Parents who are sexually preoccupied, use pornography or have pornography in the home.
Inadequate parental supervision of the children.

BY Cory Jewell Jensen

Center for Behavioral Intervention

Beaverton, OR 97005