Predator Patrol Crestview Chapter - NWFL

An offender may put added pressure on the victim if he senses that there is still potential to mo**st, by saying something like “You’re hurting my feelings by saying no.” When children are mo**sted, they are left enormously guilt-ridden. Even though what happened to them was not their fault, they still feel like it was.

Children are also left deeply confused, as they may often feel like they cooperated if they enjoyed both the attention as well as the physical sensations that come with the mo**station. This is one major reason why it is difficult for children to disclose that they were preyed upon, as they may not even understand what they experienced until many years later. They are usually left feeling “dirty” and intensely ashamed, largely blaming themselves for the most intimate type of predation that they were lured, tricked, and sometimes threatened into enduring.

Once a child has become a victim of a particular predator, the re-victimization can often take on a repetitive and ritualistic nature. When the mo**station continues over long periods of time, the child may often cope by essentially separating the offender into two different people when dealing with his or her “uncle & monster,” “older brother & rapist” or “youth group leader & predator,” for example, while watching his or her perpetrator parade around, respected and above reproach.