What are common patterns of a predator abduction?
The patterns are really simple that an individual who wants to sexually exploit a child will oftentimes number one - put themselves in positions that give them access to that child so there'll be school teachers or there'll be daycare providers or there'll be little league coaches or there'll be paediatricians or there'll be youth ministers, I mean it really becomes rather insidious. Secondly, they then will groom the children and look for certain types of children, children that are indecisive or children that don't seem to have a lot of self esteem or self confidence and then they'll spend a long time trying to gain that child's confidence all with the ultimate plan of getting that child alone some place so that they can ultimately sexually exploit that child. Now very interestingly, NBC's Dateline To Catch a Predator program has given us a great insight into who these individuals are, and the fact that they seem to be working on impulses they have absolutely no ability to control whatsoever. So what we notice is that there is no stereotypical kind of a pattern that these can be any kind of a guy and they tend to be guys going after just post pubescent or pre-pubescent children for purposes of sexual exploitation that's why it's so important to Number one - make sure the kids have good information, Number two - try to prevent the kids from being alone so that they can't be exploited to begin with.
