As the process continues, the predator will often take steps to gauge how the victim is likely to respond to further grooming, to find out whether and in what situations the victim is able to meet or connect without supervision, and to ensure that the victim does not talk to anyone about the relationship.
In either case, the predator’s twin goals are desensitization – making the victim accustomed to sexual talk or images – and reframing romantic or sexual relationships between teens and adults as being normal rather than harmful. In some cases this will be a gradual process of building an emotional bond and the pretense of a romantic relationship, while others quickly introduce sexual themes or content into the conversation. Once the would-be predator has established a relationship with the victim they may try to “groom” them in a number of possible ways.
#Online predators Offline
A majority of predators are people that the victim already knows, who take advantage of the ability to communicate privately online, though the relationship may be with someone they did not know offline and may happen entirely online as well. Instead, predators are most often open about their age and will shower a youth with attention, sympathy, affection and kindness, in order to persuade the victim that they love and understand them. What strategies do online sexual predators use?Ĭontrary to the widespread belief that online predators “trick” kids, research shows that they rarely lie about their age or their motives. Though the total number of cases has risen in the past five years, the number of people actually charged has remained fairly stable. Of these, 242 were deemed unfounded, 651 were cleared and 326 people were charged: 257 adults and 69 youth.
In 2019, 1,549 incidents of child luring on the Internet were reported by Canadian authorities.
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