The Serpents Among Us: How to Protect Your Children from Sexual Predators A Police Investigator's Perspective

by Patrick Crough

The author, who is a police investigator and has worked in a major crimes-special victims unit for nearly 20 years, shares his personal perspective to parents and guardians on how to protect their children from sexual predators. It will educate parents about * how to recognize when a child predator is in their midst; * how to protect their child from that predator; * how to recognize if their child has already been offended by a predator; and * what to do if their child discloses that they have been offended by a predator. For the adult reader who was sexually molested as a child, it is the author's hope that this resource may assist you making some sense out of what happened to you, and help you understand that it wasn't your fault. First, the book will lay the frame work to help parents understand the common tactics that predators use to gain access to, seduce, and maintain control of a child. The book then discusses specific defensive counter measures against these tactics. The author offers a dozen specific cases that will allow the reader to apply the principles they learned to real-life scenarios that unfold every day all around them.

363 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2009

Reviews

[Doriansilviu · Rating 5 out of 5]

I see many things like that happening in romania too for instance so, like the author says, it's global. In Romania, few people actually did something to prevent things like this.Sexual predators preffer to predate good people rather than bad people(girls), because good girls are special. I've seen girls forced into cars , taken of the street in plain daylight, as well as nightime(sexual abuse, and/or trafficking, or simply because the kidnappers have no life and want to steal others'). we must be living the end-times, cuz people are increasingly wicked upon the face of the earth. Hang in there good people, your Reedeemer is close. For all people out there, who know of cases, i have a blog in which i would like to gather such information. The blog is http://fetedisparute.wordpress.com/

[Terri · Rating 3 out of 5]

My stepmom asked all of the siblings in her and my Dad's family to promise to read this to arm ourselves. It was NOT a fun read, however I feel much more equipped to recognize suspicious behavior and I think having children makes this book a very valuable read. It is a book written by a local (Roch, NY) investigator of crimes against children and his case experience for over 20 yrs.

Again NOT a fun or feel good read, if anything it makes you paranoid of EVERYONE for awhile but overall I feel much better prepared for being a responsible and proactive parent regarding the subject instead of a reactive "it's too late" sort of stance.