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This section  provides links to online resources that may help parents be more streetwise regarding protecting children from abuse at sleep overs.
Child Sexual Abuse:  Its Scope and Our Failure
Chapter six provides a report of sexual molestations occuring while children were abused by nonparental caregivers.  6% of the abuse was reported to have occured at sleep overs.
Important Recent Developments in the Area of Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Article in FDCC reprinted in various places on the web.  Page four has this statement about pedophiles:
 
"Frequently a pedophile will offer children the opportunity to sleep over with the prospect that they will change their clothing at night, subjecting them to greater exposure.  Sexual molestation at these 'sleepovers' may take place with other children, or even the pedophile's wife situated close by.  The presence of others not only provides the pedophile with cover, (i.e., How could anything have happened when there were so many others present?), but also adds an element of danger to seduction and abuse."
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