Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious global problem. However, most CSA go undisclosed and undetected. One reason for this is that the perpetrator may use sexual grooming behaviors. Sexual grooming is ...

Grooming is not illegal in Ohio, even though experts say most child sex abuse cases start with it. Grooming behaviors are "manipulative behaviors that the abuser uses to gain access to a potential ...

Former Agua Dulce teacher was arrested Tuesday morning for alleging have sexual relationships with students. She was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, and two counts of ...

Reiko Hargis-McGuirt graduated from Norwood Middle School in May 2016. Her mother insisted she attend private school in the fall, so her best friends scribbled heartfelt goodbyes inside the hardcover ...

The 2020 Title IX Regulations raise the issue of predatory grooming, but only to state that it may be covered by the definition of Sexual Harassment in § 106.30 of the regulations. Thus, to the ...

When a 14-year-old girl from Kuala Lumpur was found in Johor after missing for nearly five days, some media reports described the 47-year-old man she was with as her “boyfriend.” He is nearly four ...