Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts

Kitchener, Ont., program brings sex offenders and survivors together to heal, and prevent future harm.

Cat Bodden, who was sexually abused by a family member as a child, never imagined she would work with convicted sex offenders.

But that’s what she’s done for the better part of a decade, in an effort to understand the mind of a pedophile. 

“I had questions I wanted to ask offenders. I had questions that I needed to understand why this happened. That was where I was in my healing journey 10 years ago,” she told CBC Radio’s Ideas.

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