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December
PARENTS KEY TO PREVENTING CHILD SEX ABUSE
Newsday/Laura A. Ahearn
Recent high-profile sex-crime cases on Long Island bring to mind the most basic and least knownchildhood sexual-abuse prevention fact that every parent and caregiver needs to understand: Mostchildhood sexual abuse involves someone with whom a child has an established and trustingrelationship.
Childhood sexual victimization begins with the initiation of, or exploitative expansion of, anexisting relationship, whether sparked in an Internet chat room or cultivated within a family or ona soccer field.
The year ends for Long Islanders with memories of the June and August mistaken release of twoLong Island convicted