However disturbing the thought online grooming of children and young people is, we reconcile ourselves that we know at least how these predators behave.
They’ll manner their interactions down to a victim’s level.
They’ll use age-appropriate language to seem accessible.
They’ll draw upon the power dynamic of age.
Right?
Through a new piece of research by Beata Pienczykowski & Pauline Madella called \"I was so Afraid All You Wanted from Me Was Sex’: A Corpus Assisted Study in the Pragmatics of Manipulation in Online Child Sexual Groomers\" we see how online perpetrators flip this script entirely.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00218-0
How victims are manipulated to believe they are the ones with all the power and that what is abuse, is in fact a relationship of equals.
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