Female Abusers and Post Clerical Sex Abuse Ireland

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Someone sent me a link to this around a year ago when I had posted on a topic.

I did not use it at the time but given that sexual abuse and its detection is hitting news daily an article on perceptions and action might be thought provoking.

Abstract
The issue of child sexual abuse perpetrated by women has received little recognition by
researchers and when the subject is addressed it is often dismissed as being a rare event. It is
only in the last decade that greater interest has been shown in the area of female-perpetrated
sexual abuse of children. This is due to the dramatic increase of research into all types of
sexual offending and the decrease in the taboo surrounding victimisation. Current literature
in the area has largely looked at the development of typologies and establishing prevalence
rates. More recently research has focused on ‘barriers’ to recognising this type of abuse. The
purpose of this paper is to identify Irish perspectives on female sexual abusers and how this
relates to the current literature. A questionnaire was distributed to health care professionals
and volunteer workers in children’s charities. The results indicate that there is confusion
about how to manage female sexual abusers and this is similar to other research findings in
the area.
Key Words: Female Sex Offenders, Child Sexual Abuse




http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1117&context=ijass&sei-redir=1#search=%22irish%20sex%22

For what its worth, I don't mean to participate in any gender debate, I just think the article is worth a read.

The article is in the link in the quote box.