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    Protecting Kids Made Simple: Empowering Children with the Knowledge to Counter the Risk of Sexual Abuse and Abduction
    Protecting Kids Made Simple: Empowering Children with the Knowledge to Counter the Risk of Sexual Abuse and Abduction
    Protecting Kids Made Simple: Empowering Children with the Knowledge to Counter the Risk of Sexual Abuse and Abduction
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    Protecting Kids Made Simple: Empowering Children with the Knowledge to Counter the Risk of Sexual Abuse and Abduction

    By Dale Jackson

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    Dale Jackson is a Criminologist and former Police Senior Crime Prevention Officer residing on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
    Parents can’t afford to rely on anyone else to protect children. This book was designed to empower parents with knowledge to train children from as young as four years to stop the unthinkable happening. Dale holds a belief that it’s far better to spend the time training children to counter sexual abuse than spend the time repairing them as broken adults.
    What Dale has set out to do is to empower parents in building a wall of protection to safeguard children against child sexual abuse and abduction during early childhood and teenage years, which will establish a framework for safety well into their adult lives.
    Dale has developed two training strategies to protect children:
    The SAT Program (Sexual Abuse Training) - about building a five-step wall of protection, an early-intervention strategy to harden children against the risk of inappropriate adult sexual behaviour from the time they learn to wash their hands and communicate with adults.
    The CAT Program (Counter Abduction Training) - about Stranger Danger, dealing with strangers, safety in numbers, the power of screaming, safe routes to school, safe collection after school, and Car Pull-up Drills to counter street abduction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 23, 2014
    ISBN9781483521497
    Protecting Kids Made Simple: Empowering Children with the Knowledge to Counter the Risk of Sexual Abuse and Abduction
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    Dale Jackson

    Hailing from the swampland, Dale first left Florida for the Army where he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. Dale reached the rank of Sergeant while serving as a Networks Systems Operator and maintainer in the Army Signal Corps (he would do a short and uneventful stint in the reserves after 9/11 as well). After the Army, Dale began his radio career in 2003 while attending the University of Florida with "The Attack Machine", a weekly program on WSKY-FM in Gainesville, Florida. Defined by a relentless authenticity and unapologetic humor, Dale made a name for himself in Panama City, and got fired in Birmingham, before calling North Alabama home in 2007. Dale has since been nationally recognized with features in Breitbart, the Washington Post, and The Seth Meyers Show, and awarded multiple times as a Top Talker in Talkers Magazine. He has also made guest appearances on CNN, MSNBC, HLN, and even made an appearance during a White House press briefing. Not only is Dale a daily contributor to Yellowhammernews.com, he also hosts a weekly award-winning television program, Yellowhammer News' "Alabama Politics This Week" that airs every Sunday at 10 AM on WVNN and all over the state of Alabama on radio and cable networks. (Somehow he is also an undefeated pro-wrestling tag team champion, as well) Dale continues to be the voice of politics in the Huntsville area and remains a controversial yet straightforward source of news and information for North Alabama and is now heard all over the state of Alabama in various forms.

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      Protecting Kids Made Simple - Dale Jackson

      Introduction

      All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing!

      Edmund Burke

      My name is Dale Jackson, a Criminologist in private practice and former Police Senior Crime Prevention Officer. I have a background in military intelligence and crime prevention. My specialist fields are personal safety for women and children. I regard myself to be a shepherd guarding innocent lambs.

      I must caution you that the contents of this book are my own opinions. They are not necessarily the opinions of any government department, Police service or law enforcement agency, or anyone involved in the welfare and protection of children. You might disagree with me on some issues. I respect that!

      You will undoubtedly find some things in this book quite distasteful but it’s not my intention to offend you. Wherever I describe the motivations and behaviour patterns of child sex offenders I’m not suggesting for a moment that a particular person in your life who might display some of these characteristics is a sexual predator or that every man who shows affection towards children means them harm. I’m not suggesting that every man who forms a relationship with a woman with children from a previous marriage is a paedophile. Nothing could be further from the truth!

      The sexual abuse of children is an emotional issue that outrages and disgust most people. It deeply concerns and frightens parents. Rarely does a day pass where we don’t read about an atrocity involving child sexual abuse, an allegation of child sexual abuse, abduction or an abduction attempt.

      Sexual abuse can have a long and lasting psychological impact on children beyond childhood into adulthood. By the time a victim of child sexual abuse comes to the attention of Police they’re already scarred for a very long time - perhaps a lifetime?

      We are constantly bombarded with a tragic history of sexual crimes against children. We sometimes find it necessary to clear this brutality from our minds. If anything positive can emerge from this disgrace it would be that parents today are far more aware of sexual crimes against children.

      Regrettably, we have also learnt that child sexual abuse occurs in all kinds of families (rich and poor) and that child sex offenders come from all walks of life. While researching child sex crimes in prisons I interviewed offenders who were Fathers, Step-fathers, Foster-fathers, Brothers, Uncles, Cousins, family friends, neighbours - and Strangers. Many offenders I spoke with in prison were employed in positions of the highest trust, the traditional pillars of society, leading citizens that children are encouraged to look up to for guidance.

      Whenever I have an opportunity to speak about child protection, radio and television hosts introduce me as a child protection expert. Although humbled, I believe there is no such thing as a child protection expert although my knowledge of the predators who sexually abuse and/or murder children is better than most.

      My friends and colleagues often ask How can you do this? I sometimes ask myself the same question? I wish there was an easy answer but there isn’t. It’s something that just needs to be done. There are thousands of professionals who deal with post-traumatic stress disorders in children and adults caused by undetected sexual abuse. There are hardened detectives who have attended crime scenes of children murdered by sexual sadists. Thank God I have been spared the latter.

      I don’t have the right to tell you how to raise your child and its’ not my intention to do so. But too many innocent kids have suffered torment at the hands of monsters. Far too may have turned to a world of drugs and crime or terminated their lives as a consequence of years of undetected sexual abuse. Far too many little kids have dressed for school one morning and didn’t get to go home.

      This book was published to help you safeguard your child (or children) against inappropriate adult behaviour during the vulnerable years when they are unable to think for themselves or when you can’t be with them. It’s about ensuring the stable door is locked well before the horse bolts. It’s a sad indictment on society that we have to do this but the reality is children don’t live in a perfect world and never will. There are people living amongst us who mean them harm, perhaps living closer than you would like to imagine?

      At the end of the day society should best be judged by the way we shield the one’s that can’t protect themselves, the elderly, the young, and the handicapped. At the very least, we should ensure that our kids grow up happy and safe from harm.

      Before you go totally ballistic with fear - let me clarify a few facts:

      The chances are your child will never be sexually abused or abducted. Just the potential’s there! The good news is that you can do something positive to counter the threat and prevent the unthinkable happening.

      This book presents some basic but essential tools to assist you in training your child at home to recognise inappropriate adult behaviour and to counter abduction.

      If your child is at risk of sexual abuse or abduction they’ll usually be alone when it happens. You can’t be with them 24 hours a day. It’s when they are alone they’re most vulnerable. Therefore it’s crucial that they progressively learn to become responsible for their own safety.

      The greatest threat to children is when parents believe there is no threat It’ll never happen to me! Crime can happen to anyone and the unexpected can happen to the unwary.

      You can never over-protect your child! I’m not suggesting that you risk friendships, just be guarded towards anyone who tells you different. You do what you believe is right and necessary!

      If you report child sexual abuse or inappropriate adult behaviour against children to Police, you will contribute towards safeguarding all children!

      Question: Why do children become victims of sexual crime?

      The most common links I’ve found are lack of child supervision and parents placing too much trust in people involved in their child’s life without conducting checks and balances. I’ve discovered that children are more susceptible to sexual abuse at an age where they can’t differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate adult behaviour. Another concern that I have is that the majority of children are instinctively trained to respect, trust and obey adults.

      Question: Who should train my child about sexual safety?

      Parents - the gatekeepers for child protection! Parents are responsible for training children about sexual safety and against the risk of abduction. Mums and Dads can’t afford to rely on anyone else to crime-proof a child. A school teacher’s primary role is to teach the three R’s (reading, writing and arithmetic). Then again, today’s teachers and school-based police officers have become surrogate parents regarding child sexual safety. And they do it well! But sexual safety must start at home. Parents have an obligation to empower children with sexual safety knowledge as well as make them streetwise when dealing with strangers.

      Every child has a right to grow and develop in a safe environment. But when a child is born they have no control over where or whom they will live with. They don’t get to choose relatives and family friends, next-door neighbours, babysitters or the schools or social gatherings they’ll attend. They trust their parents to sort the wheat from the chaff - the good from evil!

      Think about this for a moment?

      Your home is usually your greatest asset. You protect your home from criminals with security screens, solid doors, deadlocks, window locks, sensor lights, and an intruder alarm. For extra protection you might buy a dog? You do this so drug-dependent criminals won’t target your home.

      Using the principles of defence-in-depth, you create too many obstacles to justify the risk for offenders being caught, enough physical deterrence to force the lowlife to look elsewhere. The cost for your vigilance and preparedness is that someone else will become a victim.

      If you don’t like taking risks you’ll insure your home and contents against fire and theft. It’s commonsense to do this but commonsense is very common - if that makes sense? You can’t insure a child against the risk of sexual abuse or abduction. What you can do is harden them to counter the threat. You can empower your child with enough safety knowledge to force paedophiles and child abductors to look elsewhere. The sad reality is they will look somewhere else, and someone else’s child will become a victim. We won’t stop these monsters!

      Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.

      Over recent years I have interviewed too many broken eggs. The reality is that once an egg shell is shattered - it can’t be repaired! I recall an elderly

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