Serial Killer Nut Case: Kairo being groomed as Serial Killer's 'boy'

This is an excerpt from the NST (17 July 2011). This is what was planned for Kairo after he was kidnapped. The plan was to leave him with a violent gang and make him one of their boys. The implication is child prostitution, courier and when he becomes really screwed up, probably as violent as his captors.

THE modus operandi of a sex offender is a simple one, says criminologist and psychologist Dr Geshina Ayu Mat Saat.

He or she often appears friendly and interested and would invariably be nice and caring to the child to first to gain the child's trust, loyalty and affection. The abuse usually starts after the prey has become comfortable. Even those into carnal intercourse will usually take time to prepare the victim, she says.

The process of getting a child ready for sexual abuse by paedophiles is known as "child grooming".

"The sex offenders will start by casual touches and caresses at first. Then, when they know the victim is okay with it, they will increase the intimacy by kissing them on their lips or genitals before sexually molesting them."

These can escalate into unnatural sex acts, including the insertion of things into the private parts of their victims.

"Some get their sexual release when they kill their victims."

Never judge a book by its cover, Geshina Ayu cautions, as evil can be cloaked in the most trustworthy of faces, be well-dressed, neat and clean too. Some paedophiles go out of their way to seek out disabled children.

"It's about power and control. They want control over their victims because they are cowards, so they go after young children and the helpless."

In some countries, Geshina Ayu says those with the means even pay for gangs to abduct children from neighbouring countries as their sex slaves. They can be kept from months to years before they are discarded for another child, she adds.

So what happens to these used and abandoned children? Geshina Ayu believes that they end up either as gang members or are so traumatised by the bad experience that they have psychological problems.

Parents, she says, must educate their children about sex.

"They must tell their children that if someone, be it a family member, relative or a stranger, touches them in an inappropriate manner, they must speak up and tell the parents. Assure the child that you are always there for them and can be trusted to protect them."

She says many paedophiles are actually victims themselves when they were young.

"It is a vicious cycle. If you do not protect your child from being preyed on, he or she can grow up to be a predator."

Read more: 'Grooming' a child for sex http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/a17ccpaedo4a/Article/#ixzz1SJtDOMeV