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spectively, which makes the abuse perpetrated in this case unusually severe. In many ways the details of this case match those of other 'sex rings'. Burgess and Grant (1988) describe the typical manner by which children are drawn into such activities. Their description that 'the adult engages the child

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hat they were not to blame. All the girls in this study were between 8 and 14 years old when the abuse began. In a survey of 521 parents in Boston, Finkelhor (1984) found that 44% of childhood sexual abuse began in this age period. He ascertained, however, that sexual intercourse and oral—genital sexual

ositions that provide access to children (e.g., Catholic Church, Boy Scouts of America, schools, foster care, sports teams, babysitting; Lanning and Burgess 1984; Leclerc and Felson 2016; McAlinden 2006; Sullivan and Beech, 2002) thus circumventing the need to gain access to or groom the child's family,

ennifer ICikoyne. 1995. "Child Sexual Abuse Prevention - What Offenders Tel Us." Child Abuse & Neglect 19 (5):579-94. doh 10AM/0145-2134(95)00017-3 Finkelhor, David. 1984. Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory and Research. London. England: Macmillan. Gallagher, Bernard. 1998. Grappling with Smoke: Investigating

in Christiansen & Blake, 1990). Many fathers also show clear signs of favoritism toward their victimized daughter relative to their other children. Burgess and Holmstrom (1980) wrote that molesters tend to use three types of pressure to make their victims compliant: material goods, misrepresentation of

ould be able to account for the phenomenon of sexual grooming. Until recently there have been three dominant theories of child sexual abuse, namely Finkelhor's Pre-condition Model (1984); Marshall and Barbaree's Integrated Theory (1990); and Hall and Hirschman's Quadripartite Model (1992). In 2002, Ward