Grooming Predators
A closer look at grooming predators
We’ve used this page to bring together information about groomers, how they work, what they want, for you to dip into to help understand what you need to know.
To the right (may appear below on mobiles) are links to useful resources.
Below we have focussed on some of the breeding grounds for groomers. It’s a growing resource, constantly evolving, so if you have anything to add or want to make suggestions, please do contact us.
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The page is still growing, but CAAGe takes a look at some of the tactics groomers use to put their victims off guard.
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CAAGe reviews an academic paper: The Psychology of Adult Sexual Grooming: Sinnamon’s Seven-Stage Model of Adult Sexual Grooming, by Grant Sinnamon, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
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With a long way still to go to completion, on this page CAAGe takes a look at Adult Grooming
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If you’ve been groomed, please help us by completing totally anonymous research questions.
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Grooming by Care Professionals
They should be a safe place to go. They should be offering help.
About care professionals who groom and how to identify them, fight them, and recover from them:
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The Casting Couch
Acting.
Music.
Anywhere there’s an agent and people with dreams, there’s rich pickings for groomers.
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Charity Groomers
Charities. Good places. Helpful places. Passionate, driven people with a cause.
Needy people with dreams of something better.
Great places for groomers to hide, the ultimate betrayal and revictimisation for their targets.
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Grooming into Cults
Cults can appear very attractive when you’re looking for ‘something’, with their sense of community and belonging.
But from finding yourself there accidently having been groomed, to signing up and finding yourself in an abusing situation, groomed to do and believe things that would have been unimaginable previously, cults are rich hunting grounds for abusers.
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Educational settings
Education: a place full of hopes and dreams.
Of dedicated professionals helping others along the way.
But also cut-throat competition for resources and a power imbalance
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Health Professionals
They have strict codes of conduct.
They are there to help.
Until they overstep the mark.
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Financial Grooming
They befriend you or marry you or become your romantic partner.
But their real objective isn’t a relationship.
It’s money or wealth.
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Modelling
Beautiful young people with dreams.
Agents who can make them happen.
Scouts who ‘discover’ them.
What a hunting ground for groomers!
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Sexual Grooming (Adult)
Perhaps one of the hardest forms of grooming to understand is sexual grooming - and there’s an element of it in just about every other form of grooming.
CAAGe takes a look at the hows, the whys and the difficulties faced by victims.
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Romance Fraud, Marriage Fraud
You meet the love of your life.
It’s whirlwind. It’s wonderful.
But it’s not real.
And it’s one of the forms on grooming where there is most ‘victim blaming’: surely they must have known?
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Law and Order Professionals
They should be there to uphold the law.
Polices officers,
Judges.
Legal teams.
With those teams come power. And with power comes abuse of power.
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Modern Slavery
Modern day slavery is a real thing.
Not something that was - as it should have been - left in the past.
Forced work, forced marriage and more….
CAAGe takes a closer look at the role of grooming in facilitating it.
Modern slavery
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Politics and Grooming
Politics come with a heady mix of passion and power.
And where there’s passion, where there are hopes for the future, and where there’s an imbalance of power, adult grooming flourishes.
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Religious Grooming
Religious settings, no matter what religion, should be good for your soul. Good for your community. United by a belief in something bigger.
But sometimes those involved set a far from ‘holy’ example.
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Workplace Grooming
Many of the situations mentioned here ARE in work situations.
But coming soon we’ll be looking more closely at traditional office type situations.