TRIGGER WARNING - THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS THE DISCUSSION OF CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL!
I had a young person contact me yesterday asking for HELP.
The young person had been shared a link to a website in which they were pressured to open and look at on insistence from 'friends'.
The...
After my Sunrise interview this morning which just touched on some of the basics of child safety, I wanted to share with parents, more in-depth advice on how to help keep your kids safe but NOT scared when talking about things like Stranger Danger.
In my experience, compared to reported...
I don't think parents and caregivers understand just how vitally important and necessary, consent education is for our children and teenagers and that unless you have been taught consent, it's not something everyone intrinsically understands or respects properly.
In my experience, many...
A lot of parents haven't considered the potential implications that a phone or device can have on your child's safety and development before they are gifted or given one.
Not because they don't care about those issues but more so because the things that may or may not effect a child's...
Whilst interviewing children about their child sexual abuse, I noticed recurring patterns and behaviours being shared by the children I was talking to both in regards to in-person abuse and online exploitation. They would describe how their abusers would similarly groom them, keep them complicit...
Kids talking to strangers online is a seriously scary thought for some parents and not much of a consideration for others.
As a parent, we often don't understand or realise the risks in a child or teens need to engage and communicate with someone not known to them in real life. Even...
Noun: Supervision - the act of supervising something or someone
Noun: Oversight - the action of overseeing something
When it comes to your child's online activities, it is highly recommended by both police, world wide law enforcement agencies, child protection agencies and online safety...
If you love true crime and hearing stories about policing than you need to check out the 'I catch killers' podcast.
I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the podcast with ex-NSW Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin last week.
During the interview, I got to share my experiences in...
Grooming is when a person engages in predatory conduct and behaviours to prepare a child or young person for sexual activity at a later time by gaining their trust and/or compliance.
Grooming encompasses all activity/behaviours from communicating and befriending of a child, the...
‘If parents knew what I knew, they would do things differently with their kids’.
That is the thought that runs excessively through my mind after 10 years as a specialist child interviewer and a detective, interviewing victims and investigating cases of child sexual abuse.
After...
Last weeks abduction and attempted abduction of the two brothers in Moora was such a strange and abnormal occurrence when it comes to child abuse. This is not the 'norm' when it comes to child abuse today!
It's just not what we see or expect in Australia and I want to share a...
Last week, I attended an amazingly insightful presentation regarding Autism, Young People and the impact of pornography hosted by eSafeKids founder Kaylene Kerr and presented by Maree Crabbe and Dr Wen Lawson.
This presentation was hugely interesting and gave me so much insight into...
