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Old 08-31-2011, 12:12 PM
 
Location: Neither here nor there
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How would you address female offenders?

While there are a few female abuses who actively participate in child molestation, more often it is a case of where the mother (or some other female) knew about the offense and did nothing to stop it.
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Old 08-31-2011, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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How would you address female offenders?
good question


not sure...didnt think about that
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Old 08-31-2011, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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While there are a few female abuses who actively participate in child molestation, more often it is a case of where the mother (or some other female) knew about the offense and did nothing to stop it.

Understating the number of female child molesters is an extremely dangerous proposition. Women who molest children often fly under the cultural and legal radar. Female offenders also play a significant role in the pathology of males who go on to become sex offenders and child abusers.

Here is a brief article written by Dr.Michelle Goland:

What Motivates Female Sex Offenders? | momlogic.com

Here is what is probably the best resource for information regarding female child molesters and sex offenders. This is the site of The Canadian Children's Rights Council:

Female Sex Offenders / Female Sexual Predators - Women who sexually abuse children and teens - Rape, Incest, Female Teachers Sexual Predators
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Old 08-31-2011, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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The term "pedophile" used to have a lot less blurriness to it, and it still does to those who take the term seriously. Unfortunate, some choose to abuse the term, and have rendered it into the absurdity that it is nowadays, being applied to increasingly older "victims."
Yes. We need to remember that we are talking about someone with an attraction to pre-pubescent children, NOT to anyone under the legal age of consent (usually 18). Pedophiles are attracted to children who lack secondary sexual characteristics of adults and older teens (things like breasts and wider hips in women and deeper voice and body hair in men).

There is nothing psychologically abnormal in being attracted to post-pubescent minors, even though the law makes no distinction.
I think the overuse of sex crimes laws will eventually lead to changing attitudes regarding sex crimes. That and the increasing sexual activity of teenagers will eventually do away with age of consent or at least lower it pre-teen age, which would only criminalize true pedophilia and not psychologically normal people.
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Old 08-31-2011, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Yes. We need to remember that we are talking about someone with an attraction to pre-pubescent children, NOT to anyone under the legal age of consent (usually 18).
It's 16 in a majority of U.S. states.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:35 PM
 
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While there are a few female abuses who actively participate in child molestation, more often it is a case of where the mother (or some other female) knew about the offense and did nothing to stop it.
But there are women who abuse all on their own. So that issue does need to be addressed.

IMO I would treat them no different than male perpetrators.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:40 PM
 
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As odd as it sounds, one problem is that many children don't even know that what those adults do is wrong. Since it is a taboo to talk about those things, nobody ever told them that it is wrong and that they have the right not to be touched or whatever in that way. In other words, it is also a matter of emancipation. Since the vast majority of the offenders are male, maybe it would be good if mothers carefully told their children that there are people like that, and that they should tell them whenever anyone touches them the wrong way.
On a gut level, I knew it was wrong. But of course they would tell me it wasn't. I think children know it's wrong on a deeper level, but they are taught not to trust their gut feelings.

I realize that most perpetrators are male, but it's not fair to completely leave women out. Women do target children too. By focusing so much on men, you could be missing out on a woman who is abusing your child. And I have a hunch that more women abuse than gets reported because there is such a focus on men. People don't suspect women as much so I doubt they get caught as often.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:43 PM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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“The first thing they do is to get the public to divest from thinking of what the offender does criminally, to thinking of the offender’s emotional state, to think of him as thinking of his emotional state, [and] to empathize and sympathize,” Reisman said. “You don’t change the nation in one fell swoop; you have to change it by conditioning. The aim is to get them [pedophiles] out of prison.”

Yeah who cares about the victims. What about the poor offender's. We have to empathize with them. I say just kill em and be done with it. Not in the minds of these nutjobs. Hell Obama's school czar was a supporter of NAMBLA. How long until being a pedophile becomes the norm in this society and if you don't agree you must be racist?
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That's funnier than the Onion, you mean people believe this?
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Old 08-31-2011, 08:51 PM
 
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good question


not sure...didnt think about that
What's there to think about? Would you treat female perpetrators differently, and if so, why?
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Old 08-31-2011, 09:11 PM
 
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“The first thing they do is to get the public to divest from thinking of what the offender does criminally, to thinking of the offender’s emotional state, to think of him as thinking of his emotional state, [and] to empathize and sympathize,” Reisman said. “You don’t change the nation in one fell swoop; you have to change it by conditioning. The aim is to get them [pedophiles] out of prison.”

Yeah who cares about the victims. What about the poor offender's. We have to empathize with them. I say just kill em and be done with it. Not in the minds of these nutjobs. Hell Obama's school czar was a supporter of NAMBLA. How long until being a pedophile becomes the norm in this society and if you don't agree you must be racist?
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It all began in the fifities when the same group set out to normalize homosexulality and that worked very well. The normalizatyion guru of all time, Phil Donohue, is surpassed only by Hitler in his attack on degeneration and devolution of society.
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