“…Over the years, studies conducted on the modus operandi of sexual offenders against children showed that these offenders exhibit some rationality in that they adopt strategies along a temporal continuum (e.g. to gain trust, to gain cooperation and to maintain victims' silence following the onset of abuse) to commit their crimes (e.g., Elliott, Browne, & Kilcoyne, 1995;Kaufman, Hilliker, & Daleiden, 1996;Leclerc, Proulx, & McKibben, 2005;van Dam, 2001;Young, 1997). Moreover, in the sexual offending area, researchers developed an offending process model for sexual offenders against children (e.g., Ward, Louden, Hudson, & Marshall, 1995;Ward, Polaschek, & Beech, 2006).…”