In replying to a post above, it is not true that all child sexual predators have been abused. Child abuse is often born out of power and control and the ability to get away with it. I fostered 55 children, many victims of sexual and physical abuse as well as ran non profit organizations who helped children who were abused. What scares me as much as Sandusky is all the others who are under the radar, and who now continue not only to do what Sandusky has been charged with, but who also have access to internet and the easy access it provides to capturing innocent children. Jerry Sandusky is not an anomoly, he is just more high profile and caught the attention of the world. The less known abusers, like those in your neighborhoods that you never knew, or in your kids schools or Boy Scouts or even closer, the relative that everyone knew something about but no one, like in the Sandusky case, ever stepped forward, those people are not on tv but most often, they are not brought to trial either. And the victims suffer in silence and do not feel safe to step up and rock the family boat. Little do they know that the boat sunk long ago.
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