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Presumably there is no such thing as a female child abuser

gilarion wrote:

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Presumably there is no such thing as a female child abuser

Sadly there is, though it seems as if the media slants its reporting to make us believe it is an entirely male domain.
It is thought by many that Men do most of the unusual and deviant sexual abuse and that primarily it is Men who do most of the sexual abuse of children. It was thought that women were not believed to be committers of child sexual abuse except in rare circumstances.

Recently, however, there has been much more discussion of women as possible sex offenders in the matters of child sexual abuse. However, there is still considerable disagreement and confusion about just how frequently women sexually abuse children, what type of women, and under what circumstances.

In the seventies and eighties studies showed that female perpetrators of sexual abuse are at 20% for male children and 5% for female children. Alarmingly very recent studies show that in reported sexual crimes against children there were almost as many female perpetrators 42.7% as male 53.3%.

However to put those figures into perspective it is only fair to note that usually, a male rather than the female offender instigated the abuse. The woman went along with the male and played a secondary role. This defence was used by Myra Hindley in her trial with Ian Brady in the sixties.

Recently, however, Vanessa George a Nursery school worker based in Plymouth pleaded guilty to sexually abusing young children. This gave rise to a study in which it was estimated that Child sex abuse by women is significantly more widespread than previously realised, with experts estimating that there could be up to 64,000 female offenders in Britain.

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity that deals with British female sex offenders, said its studies confirmed that a fair proportion of child abusers were women. It is now believed , that up to 20% of a conservative estimate of 320,000 suspected UK paedophiles were women and Scotland Yard's paedophile unit have recently disclosed that they had detected an increased prevalence of female offenders.

So there you have it Women are just as likely to abuse young children, perhaps to a lesser degree than males but it appears women are just as culpable in the abuse of the young.

My apologies if the above is a little deep for a Land Rover forum, but in the matter and in the horror of the abuse of children it is wise to know all the facts, so that we may be aware of its depth.