In this time of crisis and children being home and online.

"Awareness can protect your children!"

In an effort to educate the public, the team at CAFSTX would like keep you aware as to how you can protect your children while they are home and away from schools, daycare centers, camps and are spending time online.

COVID19

'Children Are the Hidden Victims of This Pandemic'

March 27, 2020

Maryanne Buechner

Lockdowns and school closures threaten to deprive children of learning and all the other activities needed to sustain a healthy childhood. They also heighten risks of child exploitation, abuse and neglect. How UNICEF aims to keep child protection top of mind in the global fight against COVID-19.

'Children Are the Hidden Victims of This Pandemic'As lockdowns and school closures keep kids at home, the risk of exploitation, abuse, and neglect rises.

Tidbit for 4/16/2020

Women Tell Us Why They Didn’t Report Their Sexual Assault & Talking to Kids About Sexual Abuse

It is so important to report Sexual Assault. Sexual assault exams can be done without Police Involvement. Click here to know your rights!!

Talking to Kids About Sexual Abuse

How to teach children to recognize inappropriate behavior, and speak up if it happens

by Harry Kimball. Harry Kimball is a senior writer and Manager of Special Reports at the Child Mind Institute.

High-profile cases of sexual abuse of children at respected places—the Horace Mann School, Joe Paterno’s locker room at Penn State, the offices of revered pediatrician Melvin Levine, the cloisters of the Catholic Church—serve to illustrate that abuse is very hard to anticipate. “We delude ourselves in to thinking that certain situations are without danger,” says Child Mind Institute President Dr. Harold Koplewicz.

“At the same time,” Dr. Koplewicz continues, “we don’t want our kids to be fearful of the world.” And this means giving them a thorough education in what is and what is not appropriate behavior to expect from other adults, as well as teaching them that speaking up about possible abuse is always the right thing to do. When parents talk to kids, Dr. Koplewicz says, they should stress that “if this happens, you don’t have anything to feel bad about.”

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Tidbit for 3/22/2020

The excerpts below are from the Center for Behavioral Intervention and were developed by a group a molesters who were in for treatment.

Who are the Child Molesters?

You think you know me well, you don't.
I am your husband, your father, your brother.
I am your wife, your mother, your sister.
I am someone's son or daughter. Someone raised me.
They did not intend for me to grow up to be a sex offender.
They would be shocked, if they knew.

Advice from Child Molesters...

I am someone you know, but you don't really know me. I hide who I am.
Trust your child, not me. They deserve your trust, I don't.
Tell them that people who do "secret touching" have a problem like stealing or lying. Don't confuse your child by calling it a sickness or a disease.
What I do is sick, but it not a sickness, it's selfishness.
Trust your instinct. If something doesn't seem right, investigate it further.
Make sure your children know that I HIDE ON THE INTERNET. Teach them to avoid me.
Check up on them. Keep the computer in the kitchen or other gathering room in your home.

How Child Molesters Gain Access to your Children:
I present the appearance of being someone you can trust and rely on.
I offer to babysit or take children on "special outings.'
I spend my free time "helping" children.
If I am a parent, it is even easier for me to isolate and control my children.
My wife and family will never suspect a thing.
I point out when kids lie.
You will help me offend, and you won't even know you are doing it.

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