Do you know a child or adolescent who is:

• Confused about social rules and interactions?
• May experience typical gestures of friendliness or affection as sexual?
• Explores his or her own natural sexual curiosity with younger children or those of differing size, status, ability, or power?
• Seeks out the company of younger children and spends an unusual amount of time with them rather than with peers?
• Takes younger children to “secret” places or hideaways or plays “special” games with them (e.g. playing doctor, undressing or touching games, etc.)?
• Insists on physical contact with a child when the child resists the attention?
• Anxious, depressed or seeming to need help?
• Tells you they do not want to be alone with a child, or group of children, or becomes anxious about being with a particular young person?
• Was physically, sexually or emotionally abused and has not been offered adequate resources and support for recovery?
• Seems to be crying for help, i.e. behaves as if they want to be caught; leaves “clues” or acts in ways that seem likely to provoke a discussion about sexual issues?
• Impulsively sexual or aggressive?
• Links sexuality and aggression in language or behavior (e.g. makes sexual threats or insults)?
• Unable to control inappropriate sexual behaviors involving another child after being told to stop?
• Engages in sexually harassing behavior?
• Shares alcohol, drugs, or sexual material with younger children or teens?
• Views sexual images of children on the Internet or elsewhere?
• Forces sexual interaction, including direct contact and non-contact (like exposing genitals) on another adolescent or child?

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