Elizabeth Phillips

We know the problem exists.

So you have primary prevention, you have secondary prevention, and you have tertiary prevention.

With a bunch of other colleagues and other foundations, we've started something called the Safe Childhoods Initiative to bring more private funding into the field of child sexual abuse prevention, because people need to understand this is preventable.

We just hosted a conference in Dallas at our office campus for foundations and private funders.

even some practitioners, subject matter experts, to a symposium to talk about prevention.

Just to give a couple examples that hopefully provide some glimmers of hope here.

There's a doctor from Sweden.

He came and talked about his... It's an injected medication for pedophiles.

and injected medication for pedophiles that takes away their urge to act upon their desires.

And he's tested this

Like you get this injection every 100 days and you don't have the urge to act upon your desires.

Because pedophiles come into just, you know, research shows for the most part, you know, you're a pedophile when you go through adolescence.

So just like anyone comes into whatever sexual attraction they're going to have, it's

when you hit puberty and adolescence.

And so, there's a lot of juvenile offenders.

I mean, a lot of child sexual abuse is peer on peer.

So, it's not just about

creepy adults, first of all, they usually don't come off as creepy.

I mean, there certainly is that.

But it's usually someone the kid knows, loves, and trusts.