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Established in 2022 and officially incorporated as an LLC in September 2023, Prevention Starts with Parents is dedicated to educating and empowering parents and caregivers. We firmly believe that informed parents are protective parents. Our mission is to provide essential knowledge on child sexual abuse risks and prevention strategies, ensuring that every child's safety is a top priority.

Our Vision

At Prevention Starts with Parents, we envision a world where every child grows up in a safe and nurturing environment. We aim to empower parents and caregivers with knowledge, tools, and resources to protect their children from the threat of sexual abuse. We envision a future where every child's innocence is preserved, and their well-being is prioritized, thanks to the commitment of parents and caregivers.

Alison Sutherland is a dedicated professional with a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice. With a career spanning various sectors, she has accumulated extensive expertise in Child Abuse and Prevention. Her experience includes roles in Child Protective Services, Juvenile Court, Victim's Advocacy within Law Enforcement, and most recently, as a Forensic Interviewer. Alison is committed to safeguarding children and making a positive impact in the field of child protection.

• Alison became a forensic interviewer in 2020 and was trained in Child First Protocol.
• Alison has spent several years working under different juvenile judges - becoming well versed in cases related to dependency, delinquency and truancy.
• Alison began her career a decade ago with the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) and investigated cases of child abuse and neglect. 
• In 2018, Alison became the Crime Victim's Coordinator at a central Texas police department. She worked with all victims of violent and sexual crimes identified by the police department.
• Alison has spent well over 1000 hours observing and participating in various courts.
• Having two separate opportunities to work with two different family treatment courts, Alison has an extensive background with addiction and how substance abuse effects families. 

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Kevin Branzetti is the co-founder and CEO of the National Child Protection Task Force. With a rich 29-year history in law enforcement, Branzetti spent 22 years specializing in terrorism and violent extremism with the NYPD, later joining the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for another 7. At the Manhattan DA's Office, he led major investigations into these areas, including terrorism, violent extremism, and cyber-crime. He ended his NYPD journey in the Intelligence Bureau as the commanding officer of the Cyber Intelligence Unit, where he pioneered the development of a groundbreaking terrorist targeting program. Globally well-respected, he's shared his online investigation know-how with police worldwide and worked closely with major social media companies to create trauma-informed solutions.

Now, at the helm of the NCPTF, Kevin Branzetti's unparalleled leadership and deep-rooted expertise anchor the organization's mission to protect children. Drawing from his vast experience in law enforcement, intelligence, and cyber investigations, Kevin provides a robust foundation to tackle the intricate challenges of crimes against children. Under his stewardship, the NCPTF has emerged as a formidable player against child exploitation, harnessing cutting-edge strategies and synergies to effect real change.

In his role as CEO, Kevin's steadfast commitment to the safety of vulnerable groups and his exemplary leadership skills remain at the core of the NCPTF's mission-driven initiatives. He remains a beacon in the effort to create a safer world for children, confronting and neutralizing the ever-evolving dangers of child exploitation.

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Kevin Branzetti is the co-founder and CEO of the National Child Protection Task Force. With a rich 29-year history in law enforcement, Branzetti spent 22 years specializing in terrorism and violent extremism with the NYPD, later joining the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for another 7. At the Manhattan DA's Office, he led major investigations into these areas, including terrorism, violent extremism, and cyber-crime. He ended his NYPD journey in the Intelligence Bureau as the commanding officer of the Cyber Intelligence Unit, where he pioneered the development of a groundbreaking terrorist targeting program. Globally well-respected, he's shared his online investigation know-how with police worldwide and worked closely with major social media companies to create trauma-informed solutions.

Now, at the helm of the NCPTF, Kevin Branzetti's unparalleled leadership and deep-rooted expertise anchor the organization's mission to protect children. Drawing from his vast experience in law enforcement, intelligence, and cyber investigations, Kevin provides a robust foundation to tackle the intricate challenges of crimes against children. Under his stewardship, the NCPTF has emerged as a formidable player against child exploitation, harnessing cutting-edge strategies and synergies to effect real change.

In his role as CEO, Kevin's steadfast commitment to the safety of vulnerable groups and his exemplary leadership skills remain at the core of the NCPTF's mission-driven initiatives. He remains a beacon in the effort to create a safer world for children, confronting and neutralizing the ever-evolving dangers of child exploitation.

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Child crime expert Detective Richard Wistocki has dedicated his career to helping children by tirelessly pursuing, apprehending and prosecuting child predators.  As an active Cyber Crimes Detective he educates Law Enforcement using cutting edge investigative techniques and Parents and Students on responsible digital activity.

·        ​30 year, decorated member of Law Enforcement

·        23 year SWAT team member

·        Authored the State of Illinois Sexting Law

·        Authored the State of Illinois Sexual Exploitation of a Child Law

·        Member of The United States Secret Service Chicago Electronic Crimes Task Force (CECTF)

·        Member of The Illinois Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC)

·        High Technology Crimes Detective, Naperville Ill.   

·        Formed the Will County Illinois States Attorney’s High Technology Crimes Unit that made over 90 sexual predator arrests in its first 3 ½ years. 

·        Created Juvenile Justice Online, a first of its kind diversion program redefining the future of positive juvenile reform.  www.juvenilejusticeonline.org

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Jenna Quinn was first asked to speak in public and share her testimony as a young teenager. Since then, she has pioneered the national child sexual abuse prevention movement since 2004. She is also an author, TED speaker, conference trainer, and the namesake of Jenna’s Law legislation on the state and federal level. 

 Passed unanimously in Texas in 2009, Jenna’s Law was the first child sexual abuse prevention education mandate in the U.S named after a survivor requiring K-12 sexual abuse prevention for students, school staff, and caregivers. It requires each school district to adopt and implement a prevention policy that educates students, teachers, and caregivers on how to prevent, recognize, and report child sexual abuse. Now, over half the country has adopted legislation reflecting the principals of Jenna’s Law, including federal legislation passed called, “The Jenna Quinn Law.”

With an educational background in Psychology, Counseling, Applied Behavioral Therapy Services, and a Master’s Degree in Communication Studies, Jenna has reached international audiences, educating and sharing her inspiring story with legislatures, law-enforcement, abuse-prevention groups, schools, communities of faith, nonprofit organizations, and the general public delivering over 500 keynote speeches.  

 As a survivor who benefited from the services of a Children’s Advocacy Center, Jenna has worked with over 100 Child Advocacy Centers across the country. She's also reached over 3 million children and youth, and helped raise over $20 million dollars for various organizations fighting child sexual abuse.

 Moreover, she has worked with over 26 states to help implement prevention education policies and has helped develop numerous child safety curriculums. 

 Jenna is also the founder of Reveal To Heal International nonprofit. She serves on several boards and committees and is currently serving on one of Texas Governor Abbott's Task Forces. She has participated in both local and international radio, television, and news programs, including Glamour Magazine, CBN, CNN, and our United States Senate. She is a wife and a mother and lives with her family in the Dallas, Texas area.  Jenna Quinn has dedicated the past 21 years of her life to education, advocacy, collaboration, and legislative action in pursuit of a safer, more just society to protect the most vulnerable. 

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The Epic conclusion of a WILD case we are calling The 3-Headed Unicorn! 

William Beckam was a serial child abductor and sexual abuser who terrorized and victimized at least three children and one young adult in Dallas County. He nicknamed himself “Skittles” because of the unique identifying tattoos of the candy on his face. Beckam targeted children who were walking alone on the streets of Dallas and Irving, either luring or threatening them to compel them to get into his vehicle. He then drove the victims to remote locations, sexually assaulted them at gunpoint, and returned them to the location where they were abducted.

Through the incredible work of Detective Andrew Padrutt (Irving Police Department) and Detective Raungi Jones (Dallas Police Department), along with the outstanding forensic interviewers at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, law enforcement was able to obtain solid identifying information about the assailant from the child victims shortly after their assaults. From those descriptions, leads were developed that led to the children positively identifying Beckam in a six-photo lineup.

Law enforcement arrested Beckam while he was wearing the exact articles of clothing described in one of the assaults. Additionally, a search of his residence yielded the specific type of firearm described by the victims. Cell phone evidence contained images of one of the abducted victims that Beckam had photographed during one of the assaults, as well as multiple images and videos of CSAM. The excellent work of the REACH clinic also yielded positive DNA matches linking the seminal fluid found on one of the victims to Beckam.

ADAs Blake Penfield and Kristen vanBolden prosecuted Beckam for the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child with a Deadly Weapon. A Dallas County jury swiftly convicted him, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

This verdict brought justice for the victims and could not have happened without the earnest and coordinated efforts of every facet of the MDT.

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William Beckam was a serial child abductor and sexual abuser who terrorized and victimized at least three children and one young adult in Dallas County. He nicknamed himself “Skittles” because of the unique identifying tattoos of the candy on his face. Beckam targeted children who were walking alone on the streets of Dallas and Irving, either luring or threatening them to compel them to get into his vehicle. He then drove the victims to remote locations, sexually assaulted them at gunpoint, and returned them to the location where they were abducted.

Through the incredible work of Detective Andrew Padrutt (Irving Police Department) and Detective Raungi Jones (Dallas Police Department), along with the outstanding forensic interviewers at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center, law enforcement was able to obtain solid identifying information about the assailant from the child victims shortly after their assaults. From those descriptions, leads were developed that led to the children positively identifying Beckam in a six-photo lineup.

Law enforcement arrested Beckam while he was wearing the exact articles of clothing described in one of the assaults. Additionally, a search of his residence yielded the specific type of firearm described by the victims. Cell phone evidence contained images of one of the abducted victims that Beckam had photographed during one of the assaults, as well as multiple images and videos of CSAM. The excellent work of the REACH clinic also yielded positive DNA matches linking the seminal fluid found on one of the victims to Beckam.

ADAs Blake Penfield and Kristen vanBolden prosecuted Beckam for the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child with a Deadly Weapon. A Dallas County jury swiftly convicted him, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

This verdict brought justice for the victims and could not have happened without the earnest and coordinated efforts of every facet of the MDT.

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There is a psychological compulsion that drives child molesters to relive their sexual fantasies with their victims. This compulsion can provide the child molestation investigator with critical corroborative evidence. The case of Harold Sowers demonstrates how a molester’s innate craving to seek and maintain mementos of their victims often ensures that crucial evidence will remain undisturbed, waiting for the investigator to discover it — even after 20 years.

Case background
While enjoying his summer, 8-year-old Andrew’s only thoughts were of Little League baseball and having fun. At his young age, there was no way for him to understand the perverted intentions of a friendly 35-year-old man, Harold Sowers, who lived several blocks away in La Mesa, California, a suburb of San Diego. 

There was also no way for Sowers to foresee that his compulsive desire to relive his deviant fantasies with his victims by keeping mementos of their relationship would eventually seal his conviction 27 years after the crime — despite no DNA evidence and no confession. The Sowers case offers intriguing insight into the motivations of child molesters and the type of evidence an investigator can hope to find, even years beyond the initial crime.

Harold Sowers patiently took specific steps toward befriending young Andrew and gaining his trust, which eventually led to him being able to severely and repeatedly molest Andrew over a three-month period. Harold Sowers was a preferential child molester, one who preferred his male victims to be about 7–12 years old. Once a victim becomes older than the age that a preferential molester is fixated on, the molester is compulsively driven to continue to relive his perverted fantasies with the victim through photos, writings, computer and text messages, and mementos of the child at that particular age. The sexual fantasies of these molesters are so powerful that they compel them to save these “trophies” as their most prized possessions, often keeping them for life.

At the end of summer, Andrew’s parents relocated the family, and Andrew lost contact with Sowers. Andrew never told his parents nor anyone else about the molestation until 20 years later. That’s when 28-year-old Andrew reported the molestation to the La Mesa Police Department. 

Even though a new California state law had just taken effect months earlier that eliminated the statute of limitations for child molestation, the chances of successfully investigating and prosecuting Harold Sowers after 20 years were practically nonexistent — that is, until the investigator asked Andrew if Sowers had ever taken any photos of him. Andrew tearfully described several posed nude photos Sowers had taken of him after some of the molestation incidents. Now, there was at least hope to corroborate Andrew’s 20-year-old secret.

Captain Dan Willis (ret) served for 30 years with the La Mesa Police Department in California and now travels the country as an international instructor on trauma recovery, resilience, and wellness. He is the author of the emotional survival and wellness guidebook Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responders Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart, which is required reading at the FBI National Academy. Visit FirstResponderWellness.com for more information.

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Robert Peters is the founder of Coursing Justice, an LLC that delivers state-of-the-art training and practical content to criminal justice professionals. 

He also currently serves as the Director of Institutional Response at GRACE, a nonprofit that empowers Christian communities to recognize, prevent, and respond to abuse.

During his time at Zero Abuse Project, Robert led the development of the most prolific national courses that equip prosecutors to utilize digital evidence in child exploitation and other felony cases. 

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Here is the remaining interview with Jess Smith the CEO of ClickSafe Intelligence. 

What is ClickSafe Intelligence?

ClickSafe Intelligence is a dual-arm intelligence analytics and training organization. All content included in training and educational resources is developed via careful and methodical research sourced directly from child predators. Dark web predator chat forum and victim/predator messaging app conversations are analyzed manually and by strategically developed software identifying trends, emerging risks and anomalies all within the world of child sexual abuse. Current predatory prevention education and online safety training fails to equip parents and kids with the specifics of what to look for in predatory grooming and only offers blanket measures that, while valid and useful, do not address the depth of sophistication that child predators leverage in order to lure their victims into a false sense of trust and care

ClickSafe relies on real-world examples and meticulously curated intelligence, straight from the predators themselves, to offer parents, children and child safety professionals the most illustrative, specialized and unambiguous education possible. 

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