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eric squarisinski hey everybody welcome back to another solo saturday of the Preacher Boys podcast. I was reading

Anna C. Sauter's book, Predators, Pedophiles, rapists, and other sex offenders. And in the

introduction, she says, quote, we think sex offenders are monsters and surely we would recognize

a monster, wouldn't we? End quote. The paragraph surrounding it jumped off the page to me,

and it was incredibly powerful

in light of the work I've been doing to expose abuse taking place specifically within

independent fundamental Baptist churches.

Later in the intro, it says, quote, sex offenders only very rarely sneak into a house

in the middle of the night.

More often, they come through the front door in the day as friends and neighbors, as Boy

Scout leaders, priests, principals,

teachers, doctors, and coaches. They're invited to our homes time after time, and we give them

permission to take our children on overnight camping trips, the basketball game, or down

to the Salvation Army for youth activities. We get permission because we don't recognize these people

as predators, because we think sex offenders are monsters, and surely we would recognize

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