Free Webinar: How Understanding and Responding to Children's Sexual Behaviors Can Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

Date: April 25, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM -2:30PM Eastern

This workshop covers how to determine whether sexual behaviors in children are age-appropriate and how to respond to behaviors that are outside of what you would expect to see in children of various ages.  Register:  Stop It Now Webinar

Objectives

• What are Age Appropriate Sexual Behaviors in pre-pubescent children
• How to use context to determine whether behaviors are concerning or harmful
• How to respond appropriately including talking with parents or other adults about concerning behaviors
• Practice putting knowledge into action by discussing various scenarios

This workshop is particularly appropriate for professionals who work with families or children, including child care providers, home visitors, teachers, and staff of youth serving organizations.
The focus is on pre-pubescent children
Presenters

Yvonne Cournoyer - Program Director, Stop It Now!

Sarita Hudson - Director of Public Engagement, Stop It Now!



April is Sexual Assault Month!

Church Leader pleads guilty to sexual assault in Franklin County

Quick facts

• Police have said the acts did not occur on church property and are not connected to the church.



• Two men who held leadership positions in the same Vinton church entered pleas Tuesday in unrelated sex crime cases involving children.



• Stone initially had been indicted on 24 felony charges, but some of them were dropped as part of a plea agreement.



• Stone is scheduled to be sentenced June 29,Silverman's sentencing is scheduled for July 7.



• Stone turned himself in to police 11/08 after he stood before the congregation at Church admitting he was in fact a molester

As reported on Roanoke Times
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/202789


Dean Harold Stone, a former deacon at Heritage Baptist Church, pleaded guilty in Franklin County Circuit Court to 12 sex crimes. He faces up to three life sentences in jail.



Daniel Silverman, the church's former assistant pastor, pleaded no contest in Roanoke County Circuit Court to one count of aggravated sexual battery of a child. He faces up to 20 years in prison.