By Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
MichNews.com
Oct 23, 2007
WASHINGTON - A recent Associated Press investigation on sex abuse in schools is being criticized as biased and harmful to abuse victims. Experts say the study used flawed methods and reached faulty conclusions.
"When a female teacher becomes sexually involved with a student, the child's complaint is often not believed and the woman's misconduct is less likely to incur criminal sanctions," explains Gordon Finley, psychology professor at Florida International University. "By ignoring that gender double standard, the AP has done a tremendous disservice both to victims and to female teachers who need treatment."
Evidence shows the consequences to the victims of female sexual predators fall within the same range as for male sexual predators.
An American Association of University Women student survey found that 43% of sexual abusers were female. But the Associated Press study, which only looked at school district disciplinary actions, reported that one in 10 sexual abusers were female.
Dale Bespalec, psychologist at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility, notes that boys are less likely to report abuse than girls.
Even when a complaint is filed, "86% of the victims of female sexual predators aren't believed, so the crimes go unreported and don't get prosecuted," according to the Canadian Children's Rights Council.[i] "Unfortunately they look at it as the 'Mrs. Robinson syndrome' and think everything is OK," according to Dale Potter, a Tennessee district attorney.[ii]
The double standard extends into the courtroom. District attorney Tony Rackauckas of California has observed that female sex offenders are not sentenced "to the same kind of lengthy prison sentences that the men get," according to a 2006 CBS News report on female sex offenders.[iii]
CNN's Nancy Grace has asked,
"Why is it when a man rapes a little girl, he goes to jail, but when a woman rapes a boy, she had a breakdown?"
R.A.D.A.R. - Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting - is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence.
[i] www.canadiancrc.com/female_sexual_predators_awareness.htm
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Edtor's Note: Karla Homolka, arguably Canada's most notorius sexual deviant/torturer and sexual predator, served a brief period in jail when she and her husband sexually mutilated and murdered a number of teenage girls. Her husband, Paul Bernardo, will never be let out of prison. Karla Homolka claimed to be a victim of domestic violence and received a plea bargain before video tapes surfaced which proved that she was a full participant in the torture and mutilation, which even included her own sister whom she killed.
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Bernardo was the biological yet secret son of Ontario politician Bob Rae.
Rae/ Bernardo was a mind-control operation, perhaps orchestrated by Jolyon West, utilizing the same phoney "Confederate Freemason Lodge" that controlled Tim McVeigh.
The politically-connected underworld wanted to embarrass Rae and at the same time make snuff films for their friends. And yes, Homolka was worse than Bernardo. The CIA-controlled Women's Movement in Ontario, were doing some social-engineering British-Tavistockian experiments in advance of the Hillary era.
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