Is there a double standard between male and female sex offenders?

Article here. Excerpt:

'CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - There is the public perception that women sexual offenders seem to get more sympathy than if the sexual offender is a man.

Attorney Lisa Wells says the Stacey Schuler case is a prime example.

"There is a bias in this case and it is of course based on gender. If we were talking about a male teacher here it'd be that he needs to go to prison and for a very long time," said Wells.

Stacey Schuler faced up to 18 years in prison, but only got four years and could be out in as little as six months.

"If we were talking about female victims there would be all kinds of backlash about it, but since these are male athletic students who are generally assumed to be popular, who have good GPAs and are going to college, we look at her and say they weren't that scarred so there's definitely bias in her favor." said Wells.'

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Not much time is spent on the legal double standard. You know, the constitutional violation o the courts. Instead they focus on how boys and doing this to themselves by maintaining the stereotype that it's a good thing to be statutorily raped.

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I live in Victoria in Australia. Just over ten years ago our state laws were amended to allow for the charging and conviction of female perps. Previously the definitions had been so anatomically specific that it was impossible to convict a female.

Just over a week ago...
Woman got boys drunk for sex

This is merely the most recent. Similar cases have cropped up every few weeks through most of the decade since those legal changes. With one (obligatory) exception the above outcome is replicated in EVERY instance. No real punishment for the female perpetrator. In the same time frame a handful of women who abused girls fronted the courts and all went to jail.

Having followed this history through the entire decade it's readily apparent that female rapists of boys will be treated as though they are schoolgirls caught in a prank.

In all seriousness I would argue that female perpetrators are actually treated with more sympathy and compassion than their victims, let alone any given male perpetrator.

I've recently begun questioning the training/guidance that has been provided to institutions and organisations in our communities of the like of judiciary, media, government and so on. I've written in the past that in a sexual impropriety any woman involved is always a default victim. It seems I was more right than I realised. I've begun to realise that the training/guidance to which I refer seems to have resulted in compassion and sympathy ALWAYS being directed towards the female regardless of which side of the equation she inhabits.

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