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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
How can we make our children safe from pedophiles?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Child sexual predators are everywhere. There is no escaping these soul robbers, not even in a small, wholesome city that is on the move like Duluth, Ga.
Earlier this month, we were appalled by the arrest of six men accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in the Duluth home of 48-year old Wilbur Caldwell.
Caldwell, who is already serving a 15-year-sentence in federal prison on manufacturing child pornography, is accused of sending e-mails and making phone calls inviting men to have sex with the minor girl whom he claimed was 18 years old.
Six men - all from the metro Atlanta area, including two who resided in Gwinnett County - allegedly raped and molested the girl.
According to a federal affidavit, the girl told authorities Caldwell videotaped her having sex with her 14-year-old boyfriend and adult men with a camera that was hidden in a bookshelf. The girl said she was often intoxicated when she performed sex acts.
The ages of the six accused men range from 22 to 52. Two of the men are reportedly students, the others are said to be a computer programmer, a furniture salesman, and a real estate appraiser. One did not list an occupation.
All of the men look like your average neighbor or co-worker and not like the monsters that they allegedly are.
Although most of those accused and convicted of child pornography, child sexual assault and child rape are men, women, too, can be child sexual predators.
On a recent Oprah show the topic was “Female Teachers’ Secret Sex at School.” Oprah interviewed several obviously educated, attractive, and emotionally disturbed adult women who crossed the line with their young male students, some as young as 12 and 13 years old.
It seems that each day we are seeing and hearing more about child sexual predators. Is it because there are more child sexual predators today or are we just more aware and less in denial about them?
What can we do to make our children safe from pedophiles?
Have you or anyone you know been a target of child sexual predators?
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