Title: Understanding Sexual Grooming in Child Abuse Cases
Headings: Understanding Sexual Grooming in Child Abuse Cases
Understanding Sexual Grooming in Child Abuse Cases
Sexual Grooming
Key elements
Where it occurs
Definition
Grooming behaviors
Protecting Victims from Sexual Grooming
Federal Enticement Statute
State Enticement Statutes
Expert Testimony
Grooming Evidence
Advocacy and Training
Conclusion

Content: activities that involve removing clothes (massage, swimming). wrestling in underwear. playing games that include touching genitalia (playing doctor). telling a child sexually explicit jokes. teasing a child about breast and genital development. discussing sexually explicit information under the guise of
education. showing the child sexually explicit images. taking pictures of children in underwear, bathing suits, dance wear, etc.” 11
Protecting Victims from Sexual Grooming
Understanding sexual grooming and pinpointing when it occurs is important from a psychological or sociological perspective to prevent sexual abuse. Its precise definition and scope is equally important from a legal perspective.