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[quote=Anonymous]The VIRTUS training, along with the background check, along with the Diocesan rules for safeguarding children are meant to work together to make parent volunteers, teachers, staff, etc. more aware of the behaviors employed by a child molester.  If you are more aware of odd or prohibited behaviors, you are more likely to call somebody out on it.  People who want to molest kids operate best in a cone of silence.  And, lucky for all of us, there are different kinds of molesters.  There are predators who seek out specific victims, groom them, and molest them.  There are opportunistic molesters who have no plan but the opportunity presents itself or they don't have to work very hard to make it happen.  Simple things like an adult is not supposed to go alone into an area where kids might be changing clothes (for a school play or for field day or for a field trip).  A 12 year old kid might object to somebody else's dad in the locker room with them, but a 6 year old might not.  So if you have had the training and read the rules, when Chester the Molester roles his eyes, looks at his cell phone, smiles, and says, "Hey, I am going to go tell them to get a move on.  We don't want to be late/to have them miss all the fun," you know to say, "Oh, hey Chester, remember that dumb video!  We can't go in there.  I don't want any of the boys saying something to one of their parents and it's all of a sudden a big problem...here...'HEY, BOYS!  PUT THE PEDAL TO THE METAL!!  YOU ARE MISSING THE EGG TOSS!!,' see, Chester?  All done."  Chester now knows you are on to him and he won't try that shit around you.  And you know to keep an eye on Chester.

I work in the criminal justice system and I deal with sex offenders frequently.  The combination of the training, the rules, and the background checks are good tools for lay people to use because they make an offenders behavior more apt to stand out and, more importantly, less likely for someone to attribute good motives to potentially dangerous behavior.  And frankly, that is what makes a molester able to operate, adults thinking, "hey that doesn't seem right, but I am too embarrassed or too afraid of offending someone by speaking up."  When the rules are clear and everybody is supposed to follow them, it makes it easier to speak up.[/quote]

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