child molesters

Presents opposing viewpoints concerning issues related to child abuse, including its causes, how widespread the problem is, and how the legal system should respond to it.

Nine essays present various perspectives on the issue of child sexual abuse, discussing the prevalence of the crime, the reliability of recovered memories of abuse, the seriousness of the problem of sexual abuse committed by other children, and whether priests who have molested children can be reintegrated into society.

Covers the history of sexual abuse of children, effects on children, profiles of abusers, controversies surrounding the Internet, Megan's law, and repressed and false memories.

Provides sixteen articles that offer personal, political, and professional perspectives on both sides of the debate about sexual predators, and includes the subject of abuse by authority figures.

Katie Tarbox explains how and why she became involved, at the age of thirteen, with an Internet stalker, a middle-aged man who had told her he was a wealthy twenty-three-year-old; and shares the story of her ordeal after she realized, almost too late, that he was a sexual predator.

Presents opposing viewpoints concerning issues related to child abuse, including its causes, how widespread the problem is, and how the legal system should respond to it.

Describes the rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in 1994 and the subsequent development of Megan's Law, which requires that communities be notified when convicted sex offenders move into them; and discusses the arguments for and against such notification.

Katie Tarbox explains how and why she became involved, at the age of thirteen, with an Internet stalker, a middle-aged man who had told her he was a wealthy twenty-three-year-old; and shares the story of her ordeal after she realized, almost too late, that he was a sexual predator.