Rockspider is a book for parents and all those interested in protecting children from sexual assault, showing:
- the way paedophiles operate;
- clergy who used their position to abuse young children;
- how paedophile groups are organised;
- a ‘therapist’ who introduced under-age girls to drugs, Satanism and prostitution;
- adolescent offenders;
- a teacher who sexually abused dozens of boys under his control;
- the use of the Internet to seduce children and transmit child pornography;
- a scout master who wormed his way into the heart of a community to facilitate the seduction of his friends’ children;
- examples of professional therapy available to adult and adolescent offenders;
- and many more facets of this critical issue.
At the end of several chapters Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor puts the offence in context and advises families how to protect their children from paedophiles. The book concludes with a statistical analysis of offenders and victims, and advice for parents and guardians.
At the time he wrote the book, Detective Senior Sergeant Chris O’Connor was the team leader at the Child Exploitation Squad of the Victoria Police. Vikki Petraitis is the author of The Frankston Murders and Victims, Crimes and Investigators and co-author of The Phillip Island Murder and The Great John Coleman.
