Children face sex risk at US schools (Guardian)

[bobthedrummer]

A recent study suggests that 10% of US schoolkids are sexually exploited at school, and that women are frequently the perpetrators.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1263844,00.html

[Mika]

1. But.. but..its kids in Cuba that are sexually exploited - according to w*

It seems as though whatever our government accuses "enemy states" of is just exactly what we are doing.

:puke:

[spooky3]

2. given that women are probably well over half of the employees

holding teaching and other positions in schools (which was not mentioned in the article), and that women are *fewer* than half of the perpetrators (which was), this description is misleading.

[jdj]

7. yes, really. "frequently" made me think it was many more.

"Research claiming that one in 10 American children has been sexually exploited at school - and that almost half the abusers are women - has shocked parents as one of the nation's most notorious pupil abusers is about to be released from prison. "

It really shouldn't be so shocking, being that repetition compulsion is the effect caused by abuse and a very large number of women, anywhere from 1/2 to 1/3 of the population, endure some form of sexual abuse as children. But I guess women are sposed to be up on that pedestal where stuff doesn't effect them, and only men fall prey to repetition compulsion.

I wish people would get on with the realization that child predators pick careers where they have access to children, even if it is a subconscious choice. Accept it, people, breathe it in swallow it. Anyone allowed around your children unsupervised could be a predator. ANYONE.

[RC]

3. I knew this was coming

The latest sex-pervert fad. :eyes:

It's about time to start over with the nursery school thingy.

When are we going to realize that we are animals and a study of anthropology would go a long way in understanding our behavior.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. some perspective...

sexually molested children at the hands of teachers in US in the past 9 years 987,000

sexually molaested children at the hands of catholic glergy in past 50+ years 11,000

teachers: 9 years 987,000
priests: 50+ years 11,000

now tell me again why the RW nuts went after the catholic church????

[MichiganVote]

11. Because unlike teachers,

No one preaches 'no sex' like the catholic church and because the catholic church endorses its priests as being 'in the place of God'.

So, you want a kid fucked by God?

[Massacure]

5. Fox News showed this statistic a couple weeks ago.

However if I recall they took into account everytime the teacher told a dirty joke. There is a huge difference between molesting and telling a dirty joke once in a while.

[jdj]

6. I get what you are saying, but someone in a position

of authority telling a "dirty" joke in front of children is guilty of violation, and this is typical inniation behavior, or 'testing the waters' for predators.

[bobthedrummer]

8. Boys will significantly report exploitation less than girls. That's life.

Boys don't cry.
:cry:

[jdj]

10. A few times when I went to have an HIV test

at a local health dept., (I've moved around alot and been to different ones) the counselor has commented on how shocked they have been at the amount of men that reported abuse when asked about it on the questionairre. Maybe this is one place or one circumstance where the feel they can or must be honest, I don't know. I don't think it's just a case of not crying, I think they intuit what is at stake, which may be their future masculine standing, so that stigma keeps male on male abuse under wraps. It's tragic, because the key for this society to deal with child sexual abuse is for the perpetrators, many of whom are male, to come forward and address the abuse; for now the only outlet is repetition compulsion, in fact their seems to be a belief that I have heard expressed in more than one circumstance, that child predation is completely incurable. The whole issue of the fear that sexual abuse renders men "less male/manly/masculine" dooms culture to perpetuate the whole cycle, because it keeps the problem in the dark where it can't be talked about, so it is a force within the person that has to be acted out instead. And I do think being around the energy field of children probably triggers the behavior in people who don't have conscious memories of being abused.

It's a really depressing topic actually, because people seem to want only to demonize the perpetrators as "other", which is such a primitive human reaction. I mean, when you look at how they treat predators in prison you can extrapolate from that sentiment that alot of men in prison were sexually abused as children. This has been well-documented for women prisoners.

[Endangered Specie]

9. 10%... Is this by just teachers...

because, from what I witnessed in high school, the other 90% got expolited by the jerk preppy males.

[MichiganVote]

12. answer

"It said teachers were responsible for 18 per cent of all reported incidents of sexual misconduct, with sports coaches, substitute teachers, bus drivers and classroom assistants the next most common offenders"

It's worth pointing out that this research does not discriminate between what is legally considered sexual abuse and what is considered sexual harassment. Nor does the study report findings about staff who are either abused or harrassed by fellow staff members, administrators, parents or even students. (yes it does happen)

[depakid]

13. The definition of "sexually exploited" is overly broad

in this study- a criticism which has been noted in past threads and in effect skews the data and blurrs the meaning of any conclusions- though it certainly won't prevent the far right from misusing the 10% figure for their own purposes.

Shame on The Guardian for pandering this story without better analysis- it makes them sound more like The Sun than the respectible publication that they usually are....

[seemslikeadream]

14. Pope 'to run' church sex probe

From Daniel Aronssohn in Vienna
July 19, 2004
After pictures appeared in the news magazine Profil a week ago showing pictures of passionate kissing and cuddling between teachers and students at a seminary in his diocese, the bishop dismissed the activities as mere "pranks".

But now the affair has taken a more serious turn with allegations that activities at the seminary went further than canoodling among adolescent seminarians and the staff.


"Photographs of child pornography have been found in several computers belonging to several people" at the seminary, said the prosecutor of St Poelten, Walter Nemec, adding that he had received "new complaints about sexual aggression against minors".

He said he would give more details about the investigation within the next 24 hours.

Prosecutors have been investigating alleged child abuse at the seminary for several months, but the issue came to a head when Profil published the photographs, and alleged that police had found up to 40,000 pornographic photographs, including scenes of sex with children and animals.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10179305%255E1702,00.html


Second Wal-Mart employee charged with molesting child at store
Scott said he is innocent of the charge of fondling a 12-year-old. "I just bumped into (the girl) by accident," Scott told The (Columbia) State newspaper Friday.

Scott was convicted of indecent exposure in 1999 and 2002. The 1999 offense got him listed on the State Law Enforcement Division's sex offender registry. Scott said he was arrested for urinating in public. "I was sick," he said. "I had a bladder infection that day."

Scott was convicted the second time after he had been seen masturbating in the parking lot of the Orangeburg Wal-Mart.

It is not the first time an employee of Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, has been accused of fondling a child in a store. In the other case, Bobby Devon Randall pleaded guilty to molesting a 10-year-old girl in 2000 at a Columbia store and received a 10-year sentence.

Lynne Taylor, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse South Carolina, says pedophiles know which companies do not perform the checks.

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, said it isn't required to do criminal background checks on most workers. But the family's attorney, David Massey, says that policy allows pedophiles to work in departments where children typically are present.

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