Deon Wigget — Author, Investigator, Survivor NB: This Podcast comes with a warning it is the authors story of his hunt for a serial peadophile

Key takeaways

1. A father's death in 2017 dislodged a memory Wigget had buried for two decades, and reframed his whole past.
2. Pedophiles typically hide in plain sight and manoeuvre into roles that give them legitimate access to children.
3. Grooming is a staged seduction designed to ensure the child tells nobody, and the resulting deception damages trust and intimacy for years.
4. Child sexual abuse is about power rather than sexuality, which is why straight men rape boys and gay men rape girls.
5. Nearly all abusers were abused themselves, but by the best statistics only about one in eight survivors becomes an abuser.
6. Parents do not need to prove pedophilia to protect a child; recognising it and keeping the person away is enough.