"The mother said her son's grades dropped from A's and B's to D's and F's and that he has run away from home at least three times since being confronted about the relationship, the complaint says.
The mother had suspected that her son was having an affair with Bradley after she found a computer message. She thenbegan taping telephone conversations between Bradley and her son, the complaint says.
The boy told a sheriff's investigator that he had had sex with Bradley about five or 10 times"
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So many people make jokes and breezily assume that women molesting boys is some kind of "victimless" crime. I have read otherwise.
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"...Men are, indisputably, responsible for the majority of child sexual abuse, but women too are perpetrators of this crime. According the the lowest estimate, women are the perpetrators in 14 percent of cases involving boys and 6 percent of cases involving girls.
Many clinicians who specialize in treating incarcerated male sex offenders believe the figures may be much higher, because so many of the male rapists and pedophiles they treat were victims of child sexual abuse. For instance, Dr. Nicholas Groth, a leading authority on male sex offenders, reports that 31 percent of the incarcerated offenders he studies were sexually abused as children; 41 percent of the abusers were female. Similarly, a 1989 study of 170 male juvenile sex offenders found that 37 percent had been victims of sexual abuse; nearly one-third of their abusers were female.
"Lip Service;" Kate Fillion, 1995
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But of course, the punishment for female molesters is usually a joke. Nevertheless, being as this sort of thing seems to make the headlines every few weeks, that may be changing.
Adolesence can be tough on teenagers. I would not expect that having sex with a 22 year old to be the cause of all this teen's ills. If he were 12 or 13, that's different. But at 16, I would bet that the majority of his peers have lost their virginity, and probably with 16 year old girls.
All told, the woman abused her position and deserves to lose her job, but she did not sexually abuse this boy.