Psychologist Grateful Female Sex Offenders Being Exposed
by Jim Brown
June 21, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A clinical psychologist is praising the news media for its recent coverage of the rash of cases involving female teachers who sexually assault their male students.
Back in March WorldNetDaily published an article on the epidemic of cases involving sexual activity between female teachers and the youngsters entrusted to them by the educational system. While focusing initially on the high-profile case of Florida teacher Debra LaFave, the article notes more than five dozen similar cases across the country -- some of them involving lesbian relationships.
Dr. Julia Hislop, author of the book Female Sex Offenders, says for the first time, the press has caught on to the widespread nature of cases teacher-student sex abuse cases. Hislop says while such cases do not constitute a new phenomenon, ten years ago there was little research regarding female sex offenders.
"On one hand it's great that it's getting some attention, because the victims have had a very, very difficult time coming forth when the perpetrator was a female," Hislop notes. "On the other hand, the cases that have been attended to in the media tend to be teenage boys."
But the public, she contends, still has not been given the full picture. "Of course there are also very young children [both male and female] who are being victimized by females ... and not just [by] teachers, but mothers, relatives, babysitters, and so on," she says. "And so I think a more accurate portrayal of these females would include investigating cases in which there have been much younger children involved."
According to Hislop, male adolescents who have been victimized by female teachers are more likely to have a distorted view of opposite-sex relationships and have trouble trusting adults later in life. She estimates that between two and three million people have been victimized by female sex offenders -- but that the vast majority of them go unreported because society finds it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
