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Victoria Police's Cider House taskforce identifies almost 30 suspected child abusers, eight victims
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-...ce-identifies-suspected-child-abusers/6807982
Thanks for this link, imagining. It's interesting; given the recent debate we've been having on this thread about online predators, that the article stated the following:
BBM.
"The alleged offenders often made contact with the children, mostly aged between 14 and 16, through social media and then arranged to meet them in person, sometimes at "party houses" in the Dandenong area.
"The offenders would say, 'There's a party at my house', and once the kids go there, they realise there's a party and there's eight to 10 men there, and there's alcohol already on the table for them, they're being pressured to drink or to take drugs," Senior Constable Dalrymple said.
"Usually they're isolated in some way. They would be taken into a bedroom, or they would go to the bathroom or something like that, and they would be cornered by one of the offenders, who would then sexually assault them.
"The love, and the care, and the affection that we saw via social media, the grooming that took place before that, would completely disappear at the point of offending."
They also found it difficult to accept they were being sexually exploited, instead insisting the alleged offender was a boyfriend.
So terribly sad. It doesn't only happen to children in care but that it can happen to any child as they are all vulnerable to this type of grooming. It comes down to their trusting and innocent natures and their need to feel loved/accepted; the very qualities these 'people' rely upon to take advantage of children.