Talking to Your Kids About Online and Offline Sexual Predators Real Talk With Susan & Kristina

In this episode of Real Talk, KJK Student Defense Attorneys Susan Stone and Kristina Super are joined by Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic, an internationally renowned expert on sexual violence prevention, sexual grooming, child sexual abuse, and sexual assault.  Topics that they discuss are about protecting children from sexual abuse.  The conversation includes how to spot signs your child might be abused, the best ways to educate your children against sexual abuse, and simple strategies parents can use to monitor children’s online activities.
Links:
Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic's Website
Show Notes:
(04:11)  Behaviors to look out for if a younger child has been abused.
(04:48)  Shocking statistic about sexual abuse by strangers versus known persons
(06:52)  Normal sexual exploration versus abuse.
(08:55)  Signs a developmentally challenged child might be abused
(10:44)  How to Investigate if You Suspect Your Child Might Be Abused
(11:48)  A Parent’s Best Strategy to Teach Kids About Protecting Themselves
(12:40)  A Study on Why Sexual Predators Avoid Certain Children
(13:04)  Why Some Kids Wait Until Adulthood To Report Abuse
(13:28)  How Parents Teach Kids to Critically Think About Sexual Abuse
(15:16)  Why Encouraging Early Detection and Reporting is Critical
(16:27)  What Types of Kids are More Likely to Be Abused
(17:24)  The Three Levels of Sexual Violence Prevention
(18:38)  How Erin’s Law Helps School Educate Kids on Sexual Abuse
(19:29)  Does Speaking with Kids about Sex Encourage Sexual Behavior with Kids?
(21:46)  Dangers of Online Chatting Apps and Kids
(22:40)  A Simple Strategy Parents can Use to Monitor Kids Using Devices
(24:54)  Rules Parents Can Put In Place to Protect Their Children
(26:45)  How to Encourage Children to Share Mistakes They Might Make
(27:15)  Patterns to Spot When It Comes to Grooming Children
(28:31)  Recommendation for Parents to Take Action Today
Transcript:
Susan Stone: Kristina, it's really interesting to watch how our practice evolves. We talk a lot about how we started out in special education and then morphed into our college practice and our research misconduct. And for the past couple years we've been dipping our toes into representing victims of sexual abuse. And more recently young children who have been abused at school.
Kristina Supler: It's really fascinating this area of law because so many people I think would say, what? What are defense attorneys doing here? But this is been a natural extension of what we've done across the country. And what is really particularly interesting about this work is just the idea of sort of parsing through, determining when children report allegations,what's real, what's play, what's bullying and abuse.
And the more we dig in, the more you realize the complexity of the issues. And how many people out there are truly desperate for legal support. 
Susan Stone: And what I really like is how the narrative has sh has shifted because when I was a little girl, a lot of sexual exploration, whichwhich today we would call abuse, was just tossed up in the air as playing house.
And it wasn't just playing house. Young children don't know how to process sex, and that's why we really have to establish good boundaries to protect our children because what might seem like normal exploration might be very damaging to the actual child. And I think we're more willing to admit that it's damaging.
 Guest today is really gonna help us parse through that a good Kristina word, parse. 
Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic: Yes. What 
Kristina Supler: My favorites. today we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic, who's an internationally renowned expert on sexual violence prevention, sexual grooming, child sexual abuse, and sexual assault. She's a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at John J College of Criminal Justice, at City University of New York.
She's also the author of Protecting Your Child from Sexual abuse, Sexua