Parents are often the abuser and the first to be looked at when a child shows sign of abuse.

Siblings can and do inflict greater damage if the parents are blinded by the love for the evil child.  Siblings have free access to the child, possibly because they share a room or the sibling bully is their resentful, sexually deviate, babysitter.

• Family member
• Grandfather/grandmother
• Parent
• Parent or family member is a registered sex offender (pedophile)
• Parents partner
• Registered sex offender who is a relative
• Sibling Abuser
• Trusted neighbor
• Step parent
• Step sibling
• Relative of step parent/sibling
• Friend of family
• Friend or relative of family friend

Mandatory Attendance or Contact

• Adoption agency staff
• Babysitter
• Band leader
• Bus driver
• Cab driver
• Choir leader
• Church member
• Club leader
• Congregation member
• Counselor
• Detention supervisor
• Fashion show editor
• Federal employee
• Food stamp distributor
• Janitor or janitors helper
• Juvenile home attendant
• Lay preacher
• Minister
• Music teacher
• Newspaper photographer
• Newspaper reporter
• Organization leader
• Parent rents a room to pedophile
• Pastor
• Political party fundraiser chairman
• Political party member
• Senator
• Governor
• Congressman
• Portrait photographer
• Priest
• Principal
• Probation officer
• Rabbi
• Reform school counselor
• Reform school staff
• Religious camp counselor
• Religious leader
• Reverend
• School counselor
• Scout Leader
• Social service worker
• State employee
• Summer camp counselor, worker
• Teacher
• Teaches helper
• Voice coach
• Welfare worker

On the other hand, the parents of an abused and tortured child may be unaware of the cruelty inflicted on their child.  Not until the child acts out, runs away, sets fires, steals, is placed in juvenile detention or attempts suicide, does their painful mistreatment surface.  And sometimes it never does. It all depends on how tightly the mistreated, abused and tortured child will hang on to their secret.  And that depends on the level of torture they endured in order to keep the secret.

More often than not, however, if the child has been properly groomed, intimidated or terrified they will remain silent.  They will keep the secret of their abuse, even to their own self-destruction, rather than face public exposure and perceived humiliation.  They will believe with all their heart the threats the pedophile said.