Thinking about renting a room out through AirBnB? Read this:

[jberryhill]

101. +1

I've had strangers in my home to fix the plumbing, inspect the heater, install appliances, and do all kinds of things. I'm aware that anyone of them, as with anyone else, has a statistical likelihood of committing a crime in my home, and also aware (and know that they are aware) that their full identity and contact information is known to the company which employs them and sends them to my home.

Would I have left my child alone in the room with any of these strangers in the house? No. But that seems more along the lines of "common sense" than anything else.

But, as noted elsewhere in the thread, people are happy to have stayover guests like aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, friends etc., who are definitely not "strangers" but who ARE orders of magnitude more likely to molest their children than any stranger. That's a fact.

But we aren't going to see the thread alerting us all to the very real danger of having members of your own family stay over in your house with your children, which is the scenario for most child molestations.