Figures in the U.S. suggest that females account for up to 17% of sex offenders. In the UK, Childline cited that 40% of their calls reported sexual abuse by females. And in trafficking stings in the U.S., a subset of groups (forced labor/sex trafficking) had 31% female defendents.
This seems seriously underrepresented in convictions. I think this is because females are not kidnapping and raping random children like male sexual predators do; they will groom and manipulate using their positions until the victim sees it as consensual, on top of male victims' reluctancy to admit they were victimized, and not being taken seriously if they do. It's not any better for the female victims of female predators either. The one girl was groomed since 15 and even though there was physical evidence the teacher just gets away with it completely, not even any charges at all. And remember in more recent news a female social worker tried kidnapping a baby from the baby's grandfather out on a walk? That's an attempted kidnapping charge in the best case scenario (charge not reduced/dropped) but if she was successful then what? Who was she going to traffic that baby to?
This post made me think of something I don't think anyone in this thread has brought up, which is that female sexual predators tend to a lot more towards not acting alone, and may even seem to specifically desire being an accessory to a male sexual predator. In fact, it feels common for women willing to commit violent crimes to either want to man to act for them, or for her have a type of hybristophilia that makes her eager to commit crime with or for him.
Here's some interesting statistics I quickly got off Google.
- 1% of violent crime committed by a man has a female partner involved.
- 8% of violent crime committed by a woman has a male partner involved.
- 10% of male sex offenders committed their crime with a female partner.
- 33% of female sex offenders committed their crime with a male partner.
While male sex offenders are much more often acting alone, about 1 in 3 female sex offenders are accomplices to a male sex offender. Now there's different ways to interpret this. You could imagine that many of those women were pressed into it by the man and are somewhat victims themselves, so this means that woman are much less interested in committing sex crime unless a man forces them into it. But you could also imagine that many of these woman are actually predators who are specifically seeking out this situation, and are just as culpable for the crime as the man. If many woman are the latter, but are viewed as a the former by a sympathetic law enforcement or jury, then that could be a possible distortion in the crime statistics.
Official statistics rely entirely on what people are
convicted of, not what they actually did. In male-female co-offending pairs, the justice system frequently defaults to the assumption that the man is the sole predator and the woman is a coerced follower. Because of this, women are routinely offered plea deals for lesser, non-sexual charges in exchange for testimony. When a female sexual predator is legally processed as just a negligent bystander, she disappears from the sex-offender data entirely, artificially lowering the official numbers of female perpetrators.
