Dick Goldberg
“How common is this (meaning how common is pedophilia)”
Dr. Fred Berlin:
“Well, we really don’t know and one of the reasons we don’t know is that people who experience these attractions are understandably very careful and frightened about others finding out… It would be important to gather that data, but at the present time, for obvious reasons, it’s very difficult to gather than information.”
“now with the mandatory reporting statute, virtually nobody comes in on their own, they call off, they ask whether they can be seen and when we tell them that we have to report them they don’t identify themselves and they don’t come forward.”
“So one of the ironies here is that a law intended to protect children, it’s done a lot of good in many ways, is also deterring undetected people from coming forward and getting the very help that might make the community safer.”
“In this day and age most of the people that do come in, because they’re in some sort of difficulty…legal difficulty”
“they may enter treatment as a condition of parole or probation”
“It’s not easy living in a society, having to lead a double life, having to privately know that you’ve got an attraction you can’t talk to anybody about.”
“There was for example an anonymous survey done…there were just some very touching examples of people talking about how troubled they were about the fact that they have these attractions, how they don’t want to hurt children, how they’re terrified that if somebody knows they’re be ostracized from their community… they fear that if they go to a counselor, they will be turned in rather than assisted.” ..Continued on Video..
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