[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Victims are picked and groomed carefully by these guys. They usually go after boys with absent fathers and they are careful to cultivate the mother as well.

After hearing "Your boy is just like a son to me" for several years they might indeed see nothing suspicious in him buying the boy a car. After all, isn't that what fathers do for their sons?

[Pontiac]

After hearing "Your boy is just like a son to me" for several years they might indeed see nothing suspicious in him buying the boy a car.

Well I am a guy and have never been a single mother so obviously my judgment in the mater is suspect.

Small gifts might slide by me (things costing no more than a couple of bucks).

But alarm bells had better go off when some teacher (who is probably unmarried or long divorced) starts giving gifts to a teenage boy that cost hundreds of dollars.

After all the most a teacher makes is what $60,000 maybe $70 if they do a lot of extra curricular activities.