I went online and did some reading on the statistics and reseach on pedophiles, for some reason I hadn’t done this before.
Pedophile.
The word comes from the Greek: παιδοφιλία (paidophilia): παῖς (pais), "child" and φιλία (philia), "friendship".
Child friendship, wow, I would have thought the root of the word would be monster, predator, but not child friendship!
Imagine!
Child friendship, which is exactly what I have been trying to warn my sister from allowing to happen, a friendship being formed with her little granddaughter and my father.
Below are a few paragraphs from another article I found interesting. That being a pedophile is similar to performing magic tricks…
In 1992 while living in Los Angeles, actor and magician Steve Valentine invited me to be his guest at the world famous Hollywood Magic Castle. The Castle is a private club dedicated to the promotion of magic as an art form and hobby. Club members perform their illusions up-close, chair-side, right under your nose. Afterward, our group ended up at my apartment where Steve was gracious enough to show us more magic. Amazed at how easy it was to fool us, I asked him point blank, “Why can’t we figure it out?”
His answer has stuck in my mind for almost 20 years. “Magicians can get away with it,” he said, “because we know how you think.” Having a degree in communication and psychology, I was riveted by the idea that the majority of humans (myself included) process the world through a homogenous lens that others can easily manipulate to fool us into seeing exactly what they want us to. And what’s truly discouraging, as anyone who has ever been privy to the workings of a magic trick can attest, is how mindlessly simple the bending of reality needs to be to completely fool everyone. I had always believed the wonder of magic rested within the skill of the magician. Come to find out, it’s more accurately rooted in the conformed ignorance of the audience.
The answer is simple; like a magician, predators get away with it because they know how children think, and as a result they’re able to convince adult eyes to see exactly what they want us to see; an ILLUSION that nothing is wrong.
The mind control – the trick – the reason victims are not reporting the crime, is simply this: Fear. Predators use the most powerful human motivator—Fear—to trick our children into silence.
It is not the skilled mastery of the Predator that allows them to molest and rape our children and get away with it; rather it is the conformed ignorance of our children. We must therefore make every effort to arm our children with pragmatic information to help them to fight back and destroy the monsters who would hurt them.
You can read the full articles at www.ezfame.com
Amazing to read that pedophiles are magicians who befriend our children and then put the seal of fear around the whole incident and call it ‘our secret- our BAD secret’ bringing the child in on the act, owning the shame and blame and fearing exposure to the loss of their innocence.
Here are some statistics I read.
1 in 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 14
1 in 6 boys is sexually abused before the age of 16
Like rape, child molestation is one of the most under-reported crimes: only 1-10% are ever disclosed.
More than 90% of all sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator. Almost 50% of the offenders are household members and 38% are already acquaintances of the victims.
The average serial child molester has between 360-380 victims in his lifetime.
This magic trick and the magicians who perform them on our innocent children will continue to play out as long as we continue to see them as normal fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers.
The Illusion is the perfect environment for my father to perform his tricks.
He is being supervised while he begins his next act, and being hand delivered his next partner to perform with him.
For without a partner his magic dies.
The magic of taking a child’s friendship and tainting it with sexual abuse, of taking our love and trust and using it to entrust us with his secret.
He needs the ignorance of the adults in the room and he needs a child’s friendship, its these two main ingredients that will make the whole act.
The magicians rely upon you looking at one thing while something else is really going on.
As my sister is looking for a pedophile, while a pedophile is looking at her.
