BBC News Magazine asks: "Are there women paedophiles?"

Submitted by Broadsword on Wed, 2009-05-06 04:32

Article here. Excerpt:

"Over the years we've had lots of men abused by mothers, sisters, aunties and baby sitters," says Mr Bevan.

"It's hard enough for adult men to admit abuse but to admit to abuse by a woman is even harder because it challenges their masculinity, it challenges their sexuality."

Women can commit a wide range of sexual offences, he says, including rape. And their victims commonly experience sexual confusion and a fear of intimacy. Anger can manifest itself as violence towards a wife or girlfriend in later life."
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"Experts agree that women commit only a fraction of child sexual abuse but so much is hidden that it's difficult to be accurate. An influential study in the US in the 1980s suggested 20% of all offences against boys and 5% against girls were by women."

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And there even have been songs about them. I believe it was the 1950's singer Paul Anka (? spelling) who wrote and sung the song called Diana about his baby sitter who evidently molested him. The main line in the song is "I'm so young and you're so old," you get the idea.

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Submitted by Luek on Sun, 2009-05-10 00:37