daddy - the heart of the issue

Investigating the law, culture, and prejudices effecting families from a UK perspective

Monday, February 14, 2005

It is up to us to find a way to save our children.

Female Perpetration of Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview of the Problem: "In the State of Washington, for example, one human services professional reported that when an accused female offender was brought before a judge, the judge declared, 'women don't do things like this,' and dismissed the case. In another case, a New England prison warden told Goldman that she had only one woman in her system who had been convicted of child sexual abuse because 'public sentiment did not allow for such charges to be brought to trial in her conservative state.' "