What is sexual grooming?

Understanding sexual grooming, its effects, and strategies for prevention and support can help protect teenagers from this manipulation and abuse.

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Understanding sexual grooming and it's implications is critical for both teenagers and their guardians. It involves a series of manipulative behaviours that predators use to gain access to potential victims, coerce them into accepting abusive acts as normal, and keep them silent. This practise is both alarming and unfortunately more common than many might think, weaving through the digital and real worlds seamlessly. What Exactly Is Sexual Grooming? Sexual grooming is a calculated process by which an offender gradually draws a victim into a sexual relationship and maintains that relationship in secrecy. The perpetrator might be someone the young person...
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