# 2 - Ipce Magazine

Theme: women and 'pedophilia'

Introduction
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Introduction

The word 'pedophilia' here above is placed between quotation marks. This is because, if one overviews cases in which women are accused of sexual acts with minors, those minors mostly are not children but mostly teenage boys, ripened as a young man. Thus, it are not 'pedophilia' cases, but 'heterophilia' cases with young men. Biologically, they are man - in some cases quite bigger, taller and stronger then the woman - but legally they are still minors.

Usually, these cases are labeled 'abuse' and the boy as 'the victim'. The boys themselves, however, usually have a different opinion an feeling about the contact. They can be pride and content and say that they are willing partners and no victims. They say that they feel themselves able to give informed consent. Some even have married the beloved woman, even after a period in prison for the women. So it was love, not abuse.

Some people have the opinion that women are less severely punished than men in comparable cases, and some may know and mention such cases. However, the author of our main article draws another conclusion: that women are more severely punished than men in comparable circumstances. There is kind of a double standard, as some other articles also argue, but according to the author Michael Kuel, detrimental to the women.

Main article

Kuehl, Michael, Debra Lafave: The New Face and Symbol of Women's Sexual Criminality; partly published on Moraloutrage.net, full text sent to Ipce
I've already explained, on this and other websites, why women like Debra are not "rapists" and "pedophiles" and "child molesters"; why the young men they have sex with are not "victims of child sexual abuse"; and why such intrigues and dalliances are victimless and mala prohibita offenses that should either be criminalized as low-level misdemenors or not at all. And those not blinded by morality and/or ideology can imagine the reaction of a young stud lucky enough to have sex with a woman as ravishing and voluptuous as Debra. "Awesome" indeed! Understandably, this is especially true of men who've yet to be enlightened by "masculists" and CSA victimologists.

Background articles

Bellet, Gerry, Landmark sex exploitation study finds surprising number of female abusers; Vancouver Sun, May 28, 2008
Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street kids and runaways has shattered the myths and stereotypes about who the abusers are, the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex with young males.

Ciavaglia, Jo, Double standard seen in sex cases; Bucks County Courier Times, June 15, 2008
Keeping in mind the limitations of the current research and the diversity of the population, some preliminary findings about adult women who commit sex offenses suggest the following Characteristics of female sex offenders: ... ... ...

Cruz, Bonna de la, Sex abuse of boys not only trait duo share; Like Mary Kay Letourneau, Tennessee woman risks all for relationship with victim; Dicksonherald.com, 5 July 2006
As well as the blonde hair and the 13-year-old victim, the Tennessee former teacher [Pamela Rogers] convicted of sleeping with a student has much in common with the most famous teacher caught in a sex scandal — Mary Kay Letourneau of Seattle.
Troubled marriages. Child-like behavior. Larger-than-life father figures. And most of all, a recklessness to continue the relationship when courts have told them not to.

With a Comment by an Ipce member
[... N]owhere is there even the mention of the possibility, even if thought to be remote, that these two perhaps are in love.

Levy, Ariel, Dirty Old Women; Teenage boys have always lusted after attractive teachers, but what happens when the teachers lust after the boys? New York Metro, 22 May 2006
An overview of several cases and background information.

Loller, Travis, Ex-teacher may not see anything wrong with abuse, expert says; Psychologist: Female abusers view boys as soul mates; The Tennessean / Dickson Herald; April 14, 2006
Pamela Rogers, 28, gained international attention and had to give up her career in teaching last year when she pleaded no contest to having sex with a 13-year-old former student at Centertown Elementary. Released from jail early two months ago, she faces up to seven years in prison after being charged with posting messages to and about the boy on her MySpace.com Web site.
Older women who get involved with teenage boys often "see the relationship with the teen as a romantic relationship, rather than abusive," said Donna Moore.

Quotes from
Morris, Rebecca, Female sex offenders reveal cultural double standard; The Seattle Times, September 10, 2007
The public is more willing to accept the female abuser's claim that she had a "relationship" with the victim. And in cases in which the male is a teenager, the sexual abuse is more likely to be dismissed as a rite of passage. The questionable, yet overriding assumption, is that women predators are somehow different from men.

Rouvalis, Cristina, When predator is a woman, are rules relaxed? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 16, 2008
Is there is a double standard? Are female predators an under-reported danger or merely a titillating novelty?

Science Daily, Most Female Child Molesters Were Victims Of Sexual Abuse, Study Suggests; May 13, 2008
A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.

Zernike, Kate, The Siren Song of Sex with Boys; New York Times, December 11, 2005
The judge, Stephen Herrick of Albany County Court in New York, told her that she had “crossed the line” into “Totally unacceptable behavior.” But, he added, the teenager was a victim in only the strictest legal sense. “He certainly was not victimized by you in any other sense of the word,” the judge said.

Other articles

CNN, Child groom's wife jailed for 9 months; Woman, 37, pleads guilty to statutory rape of husband, 15; March 15, 2006
A woman who married the 15-year-old friend of one of her sons pleaded guilty Wednesday to statutory rape and was sentenced to nine months in jail. [..]
Clark's attorney, Daniel Sammons, said the boy wants to continue the marriage: "He loves Lisa Clark and wishes to have a life together and raise their child."

Dexheimer, Eric, Teacher still marred by unproven sexual misconduct charges; Woman accused of sex with students five years ago got license back but not her job; The American Statesman, August 19, 2007
What the jury didn't know was that Sam already had confessed at a church camp that he'd fabricated his story of sex with his teacher. According to a deposition, he said he'd felt
pressured by school administrators, whom he estimated had interrogated him between 10 and 20 times.

Gangloff, Mike, Court unseals transcript in sexual abuse case; The document indicates that two boys abused by a teacher were affected mentally by the events; The Roanoke Times, August 04, 2007
Depression, bitterness and inappropriate sexuality are among the lingering effects on two boys who were sexually abused by their female teacher, court documents unsealed Friday said.
Wythe County teacher Karen Susan Patton was sentenced in June to serve almost four years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that she had sexual relations with two 13-year-old boys in August 2004 and January 2006.

Jolee, Tamara, Mother that forced her children to have sex with each other sentenced to life; KETK, May 9, 2008
Shauntel Mayo - the woman that organized the "Mineola Swinger's Club" and forced her own children to perform there - was found guilty in a Smith County Courthouse Thursday.

McKinney, Roger, Columbus woman pleads guilty to felony child-sex charge; Joping Globe, July 08, 2008
A Columbus woman will be sentenced Aug. 19 after pleading guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of felony attempted aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
Ashley Thompson, 23, was bound over for trial in September 2007 on three felony counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The victim was the then-14-year-old boy who had worked as the baby sitter for Thompson-s children at her house in Columbus.

News.com.au, Teacher 'wanted to be teen's sex slave'; May 30, 2008
A MELBOURNE female teacher charged with sexually penetrating a 15-year-old student urged the boy to treat her like a sex slave, court documents show.

O'Brien, Natalie, Female pedophiles going undetected; From Pedophilia Encyclopedia; NEWS.com.au, & The Australian, March 7, 2006
The prevalence of female pedophiles preying on children in care is much higher than previously thought, according to a study that reveals a significant amount of the sexual abuse occurs when the women are in positions of authority.
[... The study] shows that less than 2 per cent of cases reported to the police result in a jail term, compared with 16.5 per cent of cases involving men.

PJS, Woman Who Had Baby With 14-Year-Old Boy Gets Probation; wtol.com, 12 October 2006
Dawn Fisher, the 33-year-old Swanton woman who gave birth to a 14-year-old boy's baby, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in community control -- with no jail time.
Even Judge James Bates admitted there's a double standard when men and women commit the same crime.

Reed Ward, Paula,

'Rare' obscenity case targets writings; U.S. prosecutes woman for explicit fiction posted on Internet; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 28, 2006
Obscenity charges in the United States are relatively rare these days, and in cases involving the written word, they're extraordinarily so. But just last week, a Donora woman was arraigned in federal court on six counts of distributing obscenity over the Internet.

Afraid of public trial, author to plead guilty in online obscenity case
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 17, 2008
She battled the federal government's allegations for more than a year and a half, but in the end, Karen Fletcher's mental health will win out over her principles. And First Amendment lawyers will lose a key chance to have a court determine whether text-only material can be considered obscene.
Ms. Fletcher has decided to plead guilty to six counts of distributing obscenity online stemming from fictional stories published on a members-only Web site.

Schoets, David, Lesson Lost on Teacher? 3rd Sex Rap - Florida Middle School Teacher Held Without Bond After Her Third Arrest in Six Weeks; ABC News, April 29, 2008
A school resource officer first asked the boy about the rumors and then detectives investigated. They had the boy call Ragusa under police direction and she "admitted to the interaction," the sheriff's office said at the time.

Smit, Kim, Web site down after filing of suit; Sex-convict registry critic besieged by harsh online criticism; ARIZONA DAILY STAR, 2008
If you Google Jan Kruska's name, you'll find dozens of Web sites calling her a pedophile, a convicted child molester, a psychopath and an advocate for sex offenders.
Since she testified against sex-offender registries to a state legislative hearing in 2006, the 38-year-old mother of four has seen her picture, address, phone numbers and other personal information published on often-anonymous Internet venues.

Stutzman, René, Woman accused of raping 5-year-old still jailed awaiting trial; Sentinel, November 25, 2007
Eleven years ago, Kelly Lumadue, then 21, had sex with a 5-year-old boy. There's no disputing it. It was captured on videotape. But should she spend the rest of her life in prison? [...]
The boy, now age 16, was not a witness at her trial. He does not remember what happened. [...] But just because the boy does not remember, does that mean he was unharmed? That is impossible to know, said Dr. Barbara Mara ...

This is Local London, YouTube rape mum arrested; April 1, 2008
A mum-of-five who claimed she was gang raped by a group of teens who posted a video of the incident on YouTube has been arrested in connection with the incident.
In a shocking twist, the 24-year-old currently living in temporary accommodation in south-west London with her partner and young children, was arrested on Friday on suspicion of having sex with a minor and perverting the course of justice.

Three Female Teachers Charged With Having Sex With Students; Cases Similar To Lafave Case four Years Ago; [Author & source unknown] - March 26, 2008
TAMPA, Fla. -- In the past two weeks, three female teachers have been arrested in the Tampa, Fla., area, accused of having sex with male students. [...]
According to the radio report, the 14 y.o. said 'We've had sex at least 10 times...it's great. Leave her be.' Wonder why the newspaper left that out.