He has systematic and prolonged access to children. Pedophiles, because of the wide age disparity between themselves and their victims, cannot simply just hang around children. It would immediately arouse suspicion. The pedophile has to find a way to legitimize his contact with kids. He usually accomplishes this by obtaining employment in a field where he is forced to deal with children on a daily basis.
Pedophiles are also very adept at locating troubled or withdrawn children.
This is a skill they have acquired through years of trial and error. They have come to identify what usually works and what usually doesn t. The most common technique employed by pedophiles to obtain sex from children is the seduction method. Though the child will typically be under ten years old, the pedophile will lavish gifts upon the target, take him or her to amusement parks, museums, restaurants and other places of interest. This author recalls a case in which a pedophile attempted to seduce a child who had an interest in music.