AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
CANDACE SUTTON, OPINION
From: news.com.au
September 19, 2013
SOME child molesters jump out of bushes and molest your child on the way home from school.
But more likely, he is your friendly neighbour or attentive shopkeeper.
He could be a charming relative or the son of a friend who is all too willing to babysit your children.
The paedophile in your midst may be the schoolteacher, the bus driver, the youth worker or the lay preacher at your church.
The Australian Royal Commission into institutionalised child sex crimes, running since April, has entered a new round of hearings and a concurrent inquiry is continuing into child sex offences in the Catholic Church’s NSW Hunter Valley diocese.
But Australian parents should not comfort themselves with the notion child sex offences were more common decades ago, or they are confined to likely suspects such as Boy Scout leaders or Catholic priests.
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