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What is Grooming
- Grooming involves building a relationship, trust, and connection to manipulate, exploit, and abuse.
- Touch is often involved in physical grooming.
- Online grooming crimes have increased over 80%.
- Teenagers and young adults can be groomed by strangers or people they know.
Grooming in Schools
- Back to school is an ideal time for traffickers to find and manipulate young people through trust and relationship building.
- Traffickers may have scouts in schools to identify targeted kids.
Legal Aspects of Grooming
- You can face charges for grooming a minor under 15.
- Any child is at risk of being groomed.
Age Limit for Grooming
- Teenagers are 13-19 years old.
- The UN defines a child as under 18 unless majority is attained earlier.
Signs of Grooming
- Grooming is subtly asserting inappropriate control over a vulnerable person like a child.
- Signs include excessive interest and contact out of nowhere.