There are two books that I had been told to read at one time
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
Your Perfect Right by Robert Alberti
The Gift of Fear is an amazing book, it talks about how people (women in particular) ignore those hairs on the back of their neck, the red flags, the signs. Women tend to give excuses, reasoning and rational to why people do what they do because that is what they would do. Rather than listening to the inner voice that tells you to turn and run, they don't.
Your Perfect Right is about how to be assertive without being agressive. For example, a woman may tell a man, no I don't want to go out tonight I'm busy. Rather than say, no. No BTW is a complete sentence. A man hears, oh she wants to go out but she's busy tonight.
If you ever get a chance, read these.
My point is, we as women (it seems like there are a lot here) tend to not believe that someone could harm their child because we would never do that. We excuse behavior that we know is desceptive because we aren't.
Just food for thought.