Paedophiles behind face of respectability | Opinion | News.com.au
The Daily Telegraph
September 21, 2009 07:00am
Naomi's drawing shows her father watching as she is raped.A PAEDOPHILE lives in Sydney's East Ryde*. He doesn't have a facial tic or a stutter. He doesn't look like the sex offender from central casting. And his name is not Dennis Ferguson.He is one of tens of thousands of paedophiles, living in the suburbs, who don't walk around with big signs on their foreheads.
In about 90 per cent of child sex abuse cases, the perpetrator is a family member or friend, not some rock spider who abducts kids in the street.
"Offenders look like everybody else," Carol Ronken from Bravehearts, a support group for child sex victims, said.
"We need to be vigilant within our own four walls."
Six year old Naomi*, who drew the picture, left, is among the one-in-five Australian children who have been molested.
There's no way of sugar-coating this.
Firstly, this is not a happy story. It is quite a disturbing and sad story. I don't want to trivialise this in any way whatsoever. I feel for the child and her mother. The systems clearly fail another victim, as so often happens.
It reads true; and sadly, begins to sound a familiar story.
But frankly, and honestly, this poor child is a victim of a criminal, and, honestly...Senator Conroy...are you truly under the impression that you are going to stop this sort of thing happening in future?
Get a life and get real. System Fail! Yet again!
Sylvestor
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