Characteristics of Offenders

Note: This is not an all-inclusive list.

• Adults who act like children when with children or who allow children to do questionable or inappropriate things
• Adults who seem to prefer the company exclusively of children
• Adults who want to take your children on special outings too frequently or plan activities that would include being alone with your child
• Adults that your children seem to like for reasons you don’t understand
• Adults who talk with children in ways that equalize their relationship
• Adults who may talk about children in the same manner as one would talk about an adult lover or partner
• Adults who may be seen at parks, playgrounds or places frequented by children or teenagers
• Adults who seem to engage in frequent contact with children, i.e., casual touching, caressing, wrestling, tickling, combing hair or having children sit on their lap
• Adults who do not have regular contact with children, yet seem to know a lot about current fads or music popular with children
• Adults who work/volunteer with children’s clubs/activities exclusively and prefer to spend their free time doing “special” things with kids
• Adults who seem to infiltrate family and social functions in an unnatural way
• Adults who are too “available” to always watch your kids