Women emerge as child sex abusers

I wanted to post another study and this brief article about it:




Women emerge as child sex abusers.
Youth Studies Australia September 01, 2006 Gross, Kate



Some studies estimate that female perpetrators are responsible for 20% of sexual abuse cases involving children and teenagers, according to Victorian psychologist Rebecca Deering. Dr Deering recently completed a PhD study of victims of female-perpetrated child sexual abuse. The study, conducted through Deakin University, focused on a group of 10 male and five female victims, all of whom experienced severe abuse. These victims suffered serious negative consequences as a result of the abuse, such as depression, drug and alcohol abuse, aggression, anxiety disorders and suicidal thoughts, both as children and into adulthood. Victims expressed 'disgust and outrage' at society's refusal to acknowledge the seriousness of female-perpetrated child sexual abuse. Dr Deering said that explanations of why women commit these offences 'tend to evoke sympathetic reactions, which lessens the moral culpability of the females' (Australian Financial Review, 25/5/06, p.60; Courier Mail Focus supplement, 29/7/06, p.1).



Gross, Kate. "Women emerge as child sex abusers.(Brief article)." Youth Studies Australia. 2006. Retrieved September 20, 2009 from accessmylibrary: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-152373775/women-emerge-child-sex.html