As someone who has spent her entire life devoted to the education and protection of small children I can tell you that PREVENTION goes a looooong way. If small kids are given the information they need to help keep themselves safe they will do their best to follow it. They should also be given tools to help deal with any bad things that may happen. I told my kids it was okay to hurt, bite, scratch, hide from etc... grown ups who tried to hurt them. Kids are usually not empowered with enough information to help themselves safe.
Adults who prey on children are mentally ill. They are, in general, not treatable so they should be deat with accordingly, as unredeemable (death penalty ok by me). If it were my children or a child I was close to, it would be dangerous to leave me within striking distance of the perpetrator.
Another issue is the teen issue, it is funny how many men, who would kill anyone who messes with their daughters or grandaughters, think themselves somehow innocent when THEY oogle late teen girls. Abuse is abuse........

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