Content warning, this episode contains discussion of the sexual abuse of children.

It also contains some more in-depth discussion about sex between adults in general.

If that's something that offends you or makes you uncomfortable, skip this episode.

Predators live among us. Predators whose aims should terrify any parent,

any adult who cares about protecting the most vulnerable among us.

We are of course talking about sexual predators who target children.

That's not fear-mongering. Check your local news outlets or your local sex offender registries.

You'll find plenty of cases that probably didn't receive much attention.

Cases that would chill and sicken you. The numbers also bear out our statement.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Cyber Tip Line accrued 29.3 million

reports of suspected child sexual exploitation in 2021. We mean it when we say the sexual

predators live among us. Some have a hard time blending into society, but others do not.

Others adopt a mask of credibility in order to get away with their crimes.

We recently spoke to a young woman named Francesca Angaro.

Francesca fell in love with a man. On the surface, he was caring, sweet, a real gentleman.

When they met, he was 25 and she was just 18. But it seemed like a great match to her at first.

Then she discovered he was hiding a devastating secret. Before he met her,

he had been charged with receipt and distribution of child sexual abuse materials and possession

of child sexual abuse materials. He had concealed that fact from her throughout their relationship.

Francesca went through something awful and traumatic. And she's had the strength and compassion

to take that experience and want to use it to help others. In our previous episode,

the Delphi Murders, Betrayal Drama, we talked a bit about how the human brain can opt for denial

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