PAC

QUESTIONS FOR POLL (YES/NO)

WEEK 5-DEFINITIONS
1. Grooming is a process offenders use to abuse and exploit children (YES/NO)
2. Grooming is when someone builds physical connection with a child for sexual abuse
or exploitation, either online or in person. (YES/NO) Answer: emotional
3. Child grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child,
and sometimes the family, to lower the child's inhibitions with the objective of sexual
abuse. (YES/NO)
4. Child grooming is a deliberate process by which offenders gradually initiate and
maintain sexual relationships with victims in public. (YES/NO) Answer: secrecy
5. Children who are the victim of child grooming do realise that the exploitation is
strange.
(YES/NO) Answer: Grooming makes a child think that abuse and exploitation is
normal, or they have no choice.

WEEK 6-STAGES
1. Child grooming happens in few stages (YES/NO)
Answer: The stages of child grooming is choosing a victim, building access and trust,
filling a need with gifts and favours, isolating, sexualising or desensitising to touch
and lastly to secrecy and maintaining control.
2. The predator usually chooses a child for grooming randomly. (YES/NO) Answer: The
predator usually chooses a vulnerable child who are withdrawn, low on confidence,
emotionally deprived and with less parental supervision.
3. The predator will spend time in getting to know the victims’ likes, dislikes, and habits
then pretending to share the common interests together. (YES/NO)
4. The ‘Sexual or Desensitising to Touch’ stage is where the predator prepare the child
before the actual sexual abuse. (YES/NO)
Answer: The predator increases non-sexual touching that will prepare the child for
the abuse including hugs, snuggles and tickling. The predator will exploit the child’s
natural curiosity and uses sexual stimulation to excite the child and advance abuse.
5. Usually the ‘grooming’ relationship between the predator and the child is maintained
in secrecy. (YES/NO)
Answer: The predator will usually blackmail the child and make them believe that no
one will believe the child if she or he open up.