The Guardian

or where ever it was he was off to.
    The lonely stragglers were the ones he was watching for. He was careful not to move in too fast. Watching for a couple of days, maybe two or three, and then a brief encounter just to establish a contact and then on to a friendship of trust. Just say hi, move on. Then watch some more.
    The candy thing was kinda lame; kids were starting to catch on to that. They were becoming more and more aware from information given to them at school and on TV. You had to be more and more creative. He would often times ask for directions. That was why you had to watch them. He would watch to see what their habits and their patterns were. If you watched them long enough you would discover all sorts of things. He would find out if they had a special superhero or other favorite character. He looked for a special kind of shoes, or if they needed new shoes or a coat. You’d look for vulnerabilities. Something that they wanted that the parent just couldn’t or wouldn’t get for them. You looked for whatever you could use as your persuasion. What ever it was, you would use it to your advantage.
    He would befriend them, offering sympathy and understanding. “Your parents just don’t understand you,” “Other kids make fun of you.”
    “But I trust you, I respect you” “I really do understand what you’re going through, trust me” “I’ve been through it myself” and so the game goes.
    Sometimes he would even go as far as to befriend the child’s parents. God, it was unbelievable how gullible and easy the parents could be. The single mothers were especially easy. It seemed that in today’s society, there was a large amount of single mothers. They were the easiest to manipulate. For some reason they felt that their sons needed a man or manly figure to give them examples to follow. Often times they were just too busy with their own lives and it was easier to pawn them off onto someone else.
    It took some time, but more often than not, the rewards were worth the wait. Of course, by this time, you’ve established a bond with them. It’s easy to convince them that saying anything would be very harmful to them. He would introduce secrecy. He would bind them together. In the beginning, it’s, “Here, but don’t tell your mother, she’ll be mad at you.” Then it works into, “Here, but if you tell your mother she’ll beat you,” or “She’ll hate you, and “it’ll kill her” Or, “I’ll kill you.”
    Once the defenses are broken down, it was simply a matter of the first physical contact. The first one is an accidental touch. The nonsexual touch makes them less sensitive. Removes the inhibitions and helps work its way to the more sexual kind. Of course, this is where he wants to go in the end.
    Charles had been caught several times. The sad, ungodly truth was that he had never had any convictions. He had always managed to manipulate the system by turning everything around and putting the blame on the family. It was easy to do.
    One thing that was in his favor was the hours and hours he spent studying law books and reading about legal issues. He would spend hours at the library reading the books. He needed to find out as much as he could about laws to manipulate the system.
    The key words were, “beyond a doubt.” All you had to do was instill the slightest bit of doubt and you would win the jury over. That and the fact that he was always considered the nicest, friendliest, most polite man they had ever met. They considered him compassionate and caring. He was such a polite well-mannered man.
    He’d been doing this a very long time. Charles had only had to move a few times because he had to avoid prosecution. Usually he would manage to get away with it. He’d been arrested only twice. Once arrested for performing sex acts on an 11 yr old boy at his Las Vegas home. He was charged with numerous felonies involving a 14-year-Old boy. There were charges of several counts of lewdness with a minor, several counts of sexual assault with a victim under 14 and statutory sexual seduction and sodomy. They all dismissed and his record expunged. All the other serious charges were dropped only because the District Attorney, for what ever his reasons let him choose to plead guilty to the lesser charge of annoying a minor. God, people really were incredibly stupid. It wasn’t until later that the state Supreme Court ruled that the charge of annoying a minor was unconstitutional. It was too