Characteristics Of Child Grooming Perpetrators And Children's Characters That Become Targets

YOGYAKARTA The characteristics of child groundbreaking actors can actually be known from the beginning the origin of the knowledge about sexual crimes is known.

In a book entitled Women Women and Media, it is explained that child groundbreaking is the process of building a community with children with the aim of engaging in sexual activity. Perpetrators will make various efforts so that these goals can be achieved such as attracting, manipulating, or inciting children through the internet.

Clinical psychologist who graduated from the University of Indonesia Kasandra A. Putranto explained what the characteristics of the perpetrators were. According to him, the perpetrators will build emotional relationships with children in order to gain their trust.

"Perpetrators often build emotional relationships with children to gain their trust, which can happen anywhere, both in the real world and in cyberspace," Kasandra said, quoted from ANTARA.

Kasandra also explained that mangroves will tend to be manipulative. He is also quite skilled at manipulating emotions, to being able to build strong trust and relationships with children and local adults.

Not only that, the perpetrators also often show empathy and excessive attention to children. The purpose of this behavior is so that children think that the perpetrators have a concern for them and understand their needs.

"Perpetrators often have good social skills, making them easily socialize and are liked by children and adults. They may show unusual interest in children's activities, such as playing games, exercising, or other children's hobbies," he said.

According to Kasandra, people who have the potential to become child groundbreaking actors are adults who are known by the victim, including families, teachers, or people who have access to the child. The access in question is to establish interactions either online or directly.

In some cases, the perpetrators take advantage of social media, instant messaging applications, and game platforms to establish communication. Meanwhile, children who have the opportunity to become victims of child groundbreaking are those who are lonely, feel isolated, so they don't have many friends. Children in this vulnerability are considered easier to influence.

After the perpetrator finds out the characteristics of the potential victim, he will start building trust in the victim. Trust is built by paying attention, praise, impressive that the child is very special, to trying to make the child confident. The victim will then gradually begin to open up, start sharing stories to share personal and confidential information.

"Pelaku dapat menggunakan teknik pemanipuan, seperti gaslighting, untuk membuat anak merasa bingung atau mempercayakan diri sendiri, sehingga lebih mudah untuk dikendali hingga berusaha menisosikan anak dari teman-teman dan keluarga, sehingga anak lebih bergantung pada pelaku untuk dukungan emosional," jelasnya.

The child groundbreaking process itself can occur in a matter of weeks to years, adapted to the perpetrator's strategy.

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