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Western societies have been put into a state of collective paranoia about child sex abuse by men. This near-hysteria has been induced by the media: they lapped up the Feminists' anti-male propaganda and passed it on to the rest of us, who perhaps naively believed the media would not lie to us. In fact, until relatively recently, when I started taking an interest in the subject, like most people I believed "Child Abuse" and "Child Sex Abuse" were the same thing, though they are not.
Some therapists have encouraged adult patients to attribute a vast range of symptoms to suppressed memories of men sexually abusing them as children. Mothers have also used accusations of child abuse increasingly as a weapon in child custody disputes, according to World Wide Divorced Parents (members.xoom.com/WWDD/false.htm). Women have nothing to lose from using this tactic to gain sole custody and/or restrict the father's access to his children, since no proof, by the standards of the criminal court, is required for such allegations in the divorce court. Nor are they likely to be prosecuted for making false allegations of this kind – by the standards of proof required by the criminal court, it would be very hard to prove the allegations were false. So men are found guilty on the basis of mere, unproven allegations in the divorce/family court – and their accusers are immune from prosecution, because any prosecution for perjury would require actual proof !
It is important to protect children, but we need to achieve a balance between protecting society from sex abusers, and protecting innocent people from manufactured memories of abuse in childhood produced in adult minds by Feminist counsellors.
An even more important issue here is the possible censorship of inconvenient data. The last year the Statistical Abstract of the United States reported the sex of perpetrators of Child Maltreatment was for 1986 (in the 1992 edition). In that year, 55.9 pecent of reported perpetrators were female. Moreover, in every previous year, females made up the majority of reported perpetrators. Why did they begin omitting the statistics from post-1992 editions of the Statistical Abstract? Did Feminists intercede because it made women look bad and, as we all know, only men are supposed to be the bad guys in western societies today?
In the 11 years from 1976 to 1986 (inclusive),
the percentage of perpetrators who were female ranged from a high of 61.9 percent in 1979 to low of 55.9 percent in 1985 and 1986. The tendency has been downwards, beginning the period with 61 percent in 1976, and ending the period with 55.9 percent in 1986. It is tempting to link this to the increase in reported child sexual abuse, where most alleged perpetrators would have been male. It is also noticeable that the balance between the sex of victims was 50:50 in 1976, but the proportion became more and more weighted towards female victims, who made up 52.5 percent by 1986. This is also consistent with the influence on the figures of the reporting of the hyped-up crime of child sexual abuse, where most alleged victims would have been female.
This general scenario is given additional support by data from the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services of the United States in Table 28 (
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/stats/ncands96/table28.htm), which indicates
women committed 60.7 percent of all child abuse, and Sexual Abuse accounted for only 15.3 percent of the cases. In the United States, clearly
most cases of child maltreatment are non-sexual in nature, most perpetrators of child maltreatment are female, and the government bureaucracies and a politically correct media are covering up these facts. A perfect environment for Feminists to use the issue of child sexual abuse as an
anti-male propaganda weapon in their war against men.
For example, I know someone who phoned up a Social Welfare Department anonymously, because he was worried that his female partner was sexually molesting their infant son.2 Almost the first thing the female social worker asked was, "Did the boy get erections at such times?" He apparently did, but what has that got to do with it? When they convict men for molesting young girls, I'm sure they don't ask irrelevant questions like, "Did the girl's nipples get hard at such times?"
Feminist propaganda depicts women as victims of males. This message is drummed into us with an efficiency that would have made Goebbels proud. Society's learned propensity to treat males as abusers and females as victims, however, has turned all males into potential victims of false accusations. I've heard many male lawyers are growing more paranoid as well – some have a policy of never giving a bath to their children, in case they are later accused of sex abuse in court if their marriage breaks up.
so, now the guys are afriad to bathe their own children. how will that affect the desire to share family chores?
There is an apparent double-standard at work in the education system in New Zealand – and probably in all Western countries: men are judged more harshly than women for similar behaviours. For example, a woman teacher who admitted having sex with some of her male students was not refused a renewal of her registration as a teacher, because her school did not lodge a complaint against her, and she was, moreover, able to get another teaching job ! Her only excuse, on television, was that the boys were attractive ! It is impossible to imagine a male teacher being treated with that sort of leniency. So it is not surprising that the overwhelming majority ( about 90%) of New Zealand teachers who were refused a renewal of their registration in the year 2000 were males !
Another common context for false accusations of child sexual abuse is in divorce and separation proceedings. Typically, the mother accuses the father of sexually molesting one or more of the children. No proof is required; the mere accusation is sufficient to virtually guarantee the court will award sole custody of the children to the mother. Such accusations should have to be proved in court before having any effect on custody decisions.
As a New Zealand magazine observed, "Even though it involves the taking of life, probably no other crime is treated so sympathetically by our legal system as infanticide."4 ... The magazine described the case of a mother who was sentenced to two years' supervision for infanticide. If a man had committed that crime, he would have received a twenty-year sentence. Men get much longer sentences just for rape – when no loss of life is involved. The difference is, of course, that a woman is always treated as a victim, even if she is a criminal.
As Thomas (1993) says, infanticide is a terminal form of child abuse. He cites figures from the U.S.A. which show it is committed mainly by women (55.7 percent of cases) on male children (53.7 percent of cases). He notes this is exactly the opposite of the picture painted by the Feminist-dominated media. Infanticide receives very little publicity compared to sexual abuse. But most people would agree infanticide is a much more serious crime than sexual abuse. After experiencing sexual abuse, after all, at least you're still alive!
Lyndon (No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992) cites figures from England and Wales in 1989 for the ages of murder-victims (excluding aborted fetuses). The "Under 1" age-group, with 28 victims per million population, is by far the largest group. The next largest group stands at 16 victims per million population – but that covers the 14 years between the ages of 16 and 29 (inclusive) – not just twelve months, as the "Under 1" group does.
Most of those babies are murdered by their mothers. Many of them are beaten to death. The crime is not counted as murder. It exists in the separate category of infanticide. The perpetrators are accorded special treatment in the courts and are most unlikely to be sentenced to any long term of detention. (Lyndon 1992, pp 37-38)
Eugene Kanin (False Rape Allegations, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol.23, No. 1, 1994) studied rape allegations in a small US metropolitan community covering a 9-year period. In that period, he found that 41 percent of the rape allegations made were false – by the complainant's own admission! He states:
These false allegations appear to serve three major functions for the complainants: providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention.
Similarly, []iFeminists have been perpetrating the myth children never lie in court about sexual abuse[/i]. This is just more Feminist propaganda. The article Liar! Liar! in the New Scientist of 14 February 1998 reports that three-year-old children are perfectly capable of skillfully hoodwinking other individuals, according to research carried out at the University of Portsmouth.
Moreover, when women lie, they generally go unpunished. For example, here is the opening paragraph of a news item about a false accusation:
A man has been acquitted of wounding a woman after police gave new evidence in the Court of Appeal that the woman's leg injury may have been self-inflicted.6
The article goes on to explain that a police officer had become aware that the complainant had previously made two false complaints of being slashed or cut by males. Did the police prosecute this woman for making a false complaint? No. Why not? Because she was a woman, of course !
The police say they don't like to prosecute people for making false complaints because it might have a "chilling effect" and put off people with genuine complaints. But you do see in the paper from time to time cases where the police have actually prosecuted people for making false complaints. How do they decide when to prosecute someone for making a false complaint? Are men more likely to be prosecuted for making a false complaint than women? I wrote to the police in my locale asking for details of their prosecutions for false complaints, according to the category of crime involved. They replied that they don't keep such statistics, they wouldn't compile them for me, nor would they let me go through their files to compile them myself.
Neither the Ombudsman nor the Police Complaints Authority would help. I am left with the impression there is something going on that should not be hidden.
In the year ended 31 December 1993, almost 40 percent of sexual violation cases were cleared as "no offence." That is, the police found that almost 40 percent involved false allegations.7 In actual numbers, 361 cases were in the "No Offence" category. And, of course, some of the 60 percent who were considered by the police to have committed the offence were acquitted in court later on. This means that a lot of women are lying to the police, and just in this one area of sexual violation alone. But do any of them get prosecuted for it? Probably not. Nor are they likely to stop until they are.
No one would like to be convicted for something they didn't do – but imprisonment is not the only way men suffer from the false accusations of some malicious woman. Another frequent consequence is the almost certain loss of custody of their children, and/or access on reasonable terms after divorce or separation. Not to mention the damage to their reputation, the public opprobrium and even witch-hunts they may suffer.
This is one reason for the growth in the international fathers' movement. Individual men are prepared to put up with a lot of unfairness and oppression, but once it starts cutting them off from their children, even the work will turn !
We need to achieve a balance between the needs of society to protect itself against sex abusers and rapists, and the need to protect innocent people from manufactured memories of supposed abuse in childhood produced in adult minds by Feminist counsellors, and false accusations of rape. And crimes that are typically committed by women – or which happen to be committed by individual women -- should not be treated any differently than those committed by men.