Esther Rantzen on the sexual abuse of boys by women

A huge rise in the number of children calling to report sexual abuse by women has been revealed by Childline.

Over the past five years, the charity says the number of such calls has risen five times faster than youngsters reporting abuse by a man.

Of 16,094 children who called Childline about sex abuse last year, 2,142 told of abuse by a woman, up 132% on 2004-5.

Men still account for the majority of child abuse claims, but the NSPCC said female sex abuse was under-reported.

This is because there is a reluctance or unwillingness on the part of professionals to acknowledge or identify sexual abuse by females, the charity suggested.

The research follows the recent high-profile case of nursery worker Vanessa George, who abused children in her care. She was a member of an internet paedophile ring which included another woman.

Childline's report did not claim that sexual abuse by women was on the rise.

It instead suggested that, as more boys were tending to call its helpline, more cases were being reported.

The research said nearly two-thirds (1,311) of the claims it received about sex abuse by a female involved the child's mother.
Just over twice as many victims (2,972) said they had been abused by their father - which amounted to 45% of calls about sex abuse by males.

The number of children claiming to have been abused by men grew by 27% in the same four-year period.

The Childline research also showed that 42% more children were calling the helpline in 2008-09 than in 2004-5.

Sue Minto, head of Childline, said: "Most sex abuse calls to Childline come from girls saying they were assaulted by a male.

"But a growing number of callers now say they were sexually abused by a female. This may be partly because more boys are calling us than previously.

Dr Lisa Bunting, senior researcher at the NSPCC, who has studied the issue, said: "There is such an intense stigma in disclosing incidents of abuse by women.

"We get a lot of stigma with any type of sex abuse, but this is particularly the case in the participation of women."

She said this often led to victims "internalising" the abuse because they could not believe it had happened and did not think they would be believed.

She added: "If you don't think females are capable of committing sex offences, then you are never going to be looking for that."

The Childline report said the issue of female sex offending was not well reflected in policy, practice and guidance on child protection and offender management.

It added: "It is important that regardless of what is currently known about the numbers of female offenders, more is done to understand the nature of sexual offending by women [and to] raise awareness among the public so that they can report it."

"Many would find it shocking that any woman - let alone a mother - can sexually assault a child. But they do."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8347589.stm

http://antimisandry.com/female-paedophiles/
http://to-catch-a-female-predator.blogspot.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/04/uk-female-child-sex-offenders

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[RookhKshatriya]

Sexual abuse by women is suppressed by Anglo-American culture since, being inherently puritanical, it reflexively sets women on pedestals above rebuke or criticism. Rampant child abuse by Anglo-American women is the result.

[Gogonostop]

Thank you for posting this, MGTOW. More people need to hear about what is going on with male victims of sexual abuse.

Also, thank you for circulating the Declaration I posted. Much appreciated.

[RookhKshatriya]

@bjarni96 Too lenient...!

[bjarni96]

@RookhKshatriya although i didn´t understand a single word you wrote im with ya lol

[MultiAlanR]

It's great that there are women like Esther Rantzen out there who have no problem fighting for justice for boys/men and publicly stating that no, it's not right half the population are not being investigated for horrible crimes simply because it's not PC. It's time we grew up as a society.

[uwe77882]

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[junfaa]

@echo69peanut and also adding on to what i said it doesnt matter if the girl was good looking or not every heterosexual boy who thinks she is attractive will want to have sex with her and if they do they still might regret it and be scarred for life

[junfaa]

@echo69peanut your either trolling or you are dumb as fuck what do u mean its not abuse speak for yourself if u would want to be touched great and who gives a fuck about manliness fuck masculinity society should be far beyond the point of gender rolls people can be as masculine or feminine as they want and sure you would want to be touched by a woman but u would probably regret it later on in life and you cant say you would want any teacher to touch you what if she was old and fat can u say rape

[junfaa]

@echo69peanut omg have you ever been sexually abused i assume you havent so you obviously dont know the impact that it has on a persons mind especially at a young age and the people who laugh about it are either in denile or they havent been sexually abused and how can you say you wouldnt have a problem with it if its never happened to you if its a RAPE than obviously you would have a problem with it because the word rape means you are unwilling

[junfaa]

@Harzburgitic and males and females arent that different and even then differences that they do have arent the case for a lot of people so stop stereotyping for fuck sake humans are human male or female their the same species

[junfaa]

@echo69peanut your an idiot maybe if you would stop being so closed minded and come out from under that rock you would know that it is the same for a male to be abused by a woman as it is vice versa and just because you havent heard it doesnt mean it didn't happen. Ever think that the reason you havent heard about it is because its not common? doesn't mean it doesn't happen and ive heard many cases of males being scarred by the opposite sex in this manner.

[echo69peanut]

@Harzburgitic Take it easy dude you shouldn't care this much about what some guy on the internet thinks. Of all the guys I've heard of that molest girls, I have never heard of one that did it because he was "abused" by an older girl. I'm surprised that this is such a big deal to people but since it doesn't affect me at all I'll just leave it and you alone. Peace out.