Tue Apr 12, 2022 – 1:38 pm EDTTue Apr 12, 2022 – 2:11 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo found a study on the sexual grooming habits of public schools employees by an oft-cited Virginia Commonwealth University professor.
As debates continue over Florida’s anti-grooming law, and other states consider or pass similar legislation to crack down on sexualized, LGBT-related classroom discussions, Rufo has drawn attention to a paper from last year by Professor Charol Shakeshaft and others that explains common practices of predators. They examined “222 cases of school employee sexual misconduct toward a student where a school employee was convicted of student sexual abuse” and identified common patterns and practices.
“Stopping sexual misconduct directed toward students means understanding the process that adults use to prepare students to be abused so that they do not tell, do not fight, and acquiesce,” Professor Shakeshaft and her fellow researchers wrote in a paper published at the beginning of this school year. “This process, called grooming, has the purpose of gaining student trust, as well as the trust of parents and colleagues.”
According to the nation’s leading expert on school sexual abuse, “red flag grooming behaviors” include
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