What is online grooming?

Online grooming is when adults try to get in touch with kids online, with intention of sexual abuse. The adults intentionally try to build some kind of confidentiality between the adult and the kid. The reason of the adults doing this, is to sometime meet the kid in real life, and do whatever with them that they want.

The technic of online grooming, is first of all to find a potential victim. After the groomer has found a potential victim, he builds up the confidents between him and the child. In the groomingprocess the adult tests the relationship between them. He makes sexual references, and see how the child reacts. However in most cases the kid has become so close to the groomer, that the person concerned does not realize the danger. When the meeting is being arranged, the groomer makes sure that the kid is envolved in the planning of the meeting. This makes the kid feel that he/she has a joint responsibility together with the groomer. This makes the following court process difficult, because the kid had a "choice" whether he/she wanted to meet the groomer.