Get Help for Offenders

If you’re abusing a child – stop!  

We know that’s easier said than done. Just as survivors of child sexual abuse need support to move through their healing process, you need support to move through your process as well.

Inappropriate sexual urges, thoughts, or behaviors relating to children indicate a serious health problem which requires medical attention and in very few cases will the health problem improve without professional help. For those who have not acted on these urges, please get help immeditately before you hurt a child and irreversably change the course of your ilfe. For those who have already crossed the line and abused a child, we realize the decision to seek help may be a life changing moment that could result in legal action against you, depending on your age and past victimization of children. But we also realize for many of you, the guilt and loss of self respect associated with sexually abusing children, often the ones you love the most, may simply be unbearable. It may be hard to believe right now, but the sooner you confront this health problem and ask for help, the less impact it will have on your life.

Some of you may be ready to make a decision to stop abusing children and ask for help. If so, go to our Offender Support Resources page for referrals to treatment and support programs.

If you’re just not ready to make that decision but need someone to talk to, please call this confidential helpline:

1-888-PREVENT
Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-6:00 PM (EST)
No caller ID is used on this line.

For more than 10 years, the Stop It Now! National Helpline has provided a confidential place for thousands of people to speak about a subject that they thought was unspeakable. They offer a chance for adults to voice their personal fears about their own sexualized thoughts or behavior toward children. Often their callers indicate that they have never spoken these words out loud before.

Each and every time you abuse a child, you make a personal choice; a personal choice that you will eventually be held accountable for legally and spiritually; a personal choice that will haunt your victims each and every day for the rest of their lives. So, although you are part of the problem, we beg you to be part of the solution as well; we ask that you do what’s right, that you make a personal choice to seek help instead of abusing your next victim.