The Unofficial Guide: Detecting a Pedophile

By Julianna Davis

Told from the perspective of an adult female formerly sexually abused as a child, this book takes a deep look into the world of pedophiles and their behaviors. Find out what cultivates their mindset, and propells them into committing atrocious acts against children. Telling cases from history and real events from her past help paint a more vivid picture of the 'Chester Molesters' who are hiding in plain sight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julianna Davis
• Release date: Jul 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223152798

Julianna Davis

Julianna is the pseudonym of a small town girl from northern Michigan who grew up in a most dysfunctional family. Transplanted to south western Tennessee in her youth, she was faced with learning to cope and live in the nightmare that became her life. Beating the odds, she summoned the courage to survive throughout her ordeal of marriage, poverty, and childbirth as a teen, and overcame decades of trauma resulting from incest, rape, and mental and physical abuse. Using her past experiences, she channels her feelings into stories and poetry, and regards it as a form of healing. She currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and collaberates with other writers and authors, with aspirations for future writing projects.

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About the Author:

Julianna spent her first years in Michigan and the following decades in sleepy towns in Tennessee while enduring multiple forms of abuse in a twisted and dysfunctional family. Marriage and babies followed beginning at the age of 15 and she struggled to keep the family afloat living well below the poverty level.  A skewed existence became the norm until she became aware of and then tried to escape the Jekyll and Hyde character she called her husband, but it took 20 years.

At 50 years old, she realized that to heal from her past, she needed to get her story told. The process of reliving the past while writing was, in itself, a form of therapy she’d never had. She’s very happy to have published her memoir, Hidden Inside, and hopes that it will help someone else to know that there is an end to the misery and pain. As a follow-up to her memoir, this book was developed for anyone wishing to gain perspective from a victim and survivor’s point of view. Julianna is currently working on her first collection of fiction stories, and is very much enjoying the creativity that comes with the writing journey.

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Dedication:

To the living innocent, vulnerable, and unheard voices... Your past does not dictate your future. To those already gone...You aren’t forgotten.

Foreword:

As a survivor of sexual abuse as a child, teenager and adult, by several different males, I believe I’ve gained some insight. While I attended college with a major in criminal justice and hopes of some day becoming a forensic technician, I did years of research and study on pedophilia and sexual abuse in general because I struggled to understand why and how I’d continually allowed my abuse to occur.

My college plans didn’t work out due to unexpected and insurmountable requirements (namely my poor vision, which negates me from being a candidate for such a position), but by that point, I’d been a true-crime junkie for more than 2 decades and read voraciously. Combining knowledge and research, I came to realize that there are signs that are common to many, if not virtually all pedophiles, if you know what to look for.

I realize this has been and is still a topic many wish to sweep under the rug, for whatever inane reason. Unless you’ve been living on a remote island or another planet since birth, you are surely aware that sexual predators of children are everywhere. State sexual offender registries are full of them, but that’s only the ones who’ve been caught and convicted.

What about the more probable thousands who are still trolling your neighborhoods, schools, parks, beaches, playgrounds, churches, clinics, and daycare centers? Or the ones living in your house? He/she would never do that? Many hundreds, thousands or possibly millions of ignorant parents, including my mother, probably thought the same thing before certain truths about their mates were revealed.

Interspersed, you will surely notice my contempt as you read of specific events from my life (I can’t refrain, it just comes out), as well as cases from the annals of crime and time, which I have summarized from articles, videos, and web pages. Each will be a sample of a particular type of case or offender. I’m not saying this is a definitive manual to spotting a pervert, but they are things I’ve found to be more than just coincidence. I’ll let you decide...

Part 1

Males make up the greatest majority of sex offenders, somewhere in the 80% - 90% range, although there have been numerous cases of female offenders who actively participated, with and without coercion or force by a male cohort. Since I am not aware of any sexual abuse toward me by any females I cannot speak (from experience) on that, aside from my thoughts on the uncaring, foul and despicable mothers who do perpetrate such acts. I will mainly be divulging what I’ve learned about men but feel free to insert a female figure in place of an ambiguous male offender in scenarios concerning grooming and manipulation tactics because these do not vary with any significance according to gender.

Just for good measure, we’ll start out with a case from  1995. A well respected and prominent attorney named Ronald Book lived in Florida with his wife and children. 11 year old Lauren was the oldest and most reserved, was into sports and excelled at school. As Lauren’s parents both worked outside the home, after getting recommendations and checking her background, they hired a 30-something live-in nanny by the