The Ugly Truth About Child Molestation.

The enemy is running rampant with our children.  Fatherless homes, drugs, poverty and abuse.  How many kids in this nation go to bed hungry at night?  How many are homeless, abandoned, forgotten? How many are exposed to drugs and alcohol on a daily basis?  Way too many.  One is too many.  These are the children that we think are more likely to be a victim of sexual abuse, and many are because of their vulnerability and need for love and acceptance.  But what about your children?  Could it happen to them?  Yes, it could.  A huge number of child sexual abuse victims (over 90%) know and trust their abusers.  We as parents know and trust them as well.  We have always told our children not to talk to strangers, but strangers are a very small percent of the problem.  Most child rapists and molesters are family friends and relatives.  Trusted neighbors, that nice guy down the street that plays catch with your kids and offers to babysit.  Uncle Charlie or the older guy they call gramps, who are more interested in playing with the kids than joining the adults at a party.  They gain your trust, that's how they are able to do it.  We trust them, the kids trust and look up to them.  They worm their way into our lives, we become comfortable with their presence in our lives and when nobody's looking, these predators attack.  We must wake up!  We must be careful who our kids are spending time with.  If you have a bad feeling, if something doesn't feel quite right, it's probably not!  Go with your gut! Parents think that their kids would tell them if something was going on, but many times because of the trust factor, they fell like they were the ones to do something wrong.  Predators like this work very hard to build that trust, its a calculated process, they know exactly what they are doing.  Don't think it couldn't happen to your child.  It's happening to our children right under our very noses.  It's time we take our children back. 

One last thing.  Do you pray regularly for your children? Do you pray God's hand of protection over them against violence and evil of every kind?   God hears our prayers and loves our children even more than we do.