Learn the #facts not the #myths. Girls and women can sexually abuse boys. The boys are not “lucky,” but exploited and harmed. #1in6
— 1in6 (@1in6org) July 10, 2014
According to a study done by Cortoni and Hanson in 2005, 4-5% of all recorded sexual abuse victims were abused by female offenders.[6] However, the Cortoni study numbers don’t match the official statistics by The United States Department of Justice which found a rate of 8.3% for “Other sexual offenses” for females and The Australian Bureau of Statistics found a rate of 7.9% for “Sexual assault and related offences” for females.[citation needed]
Other studies have found rates to be much higher. For example:
In a study of 3,586 of the cases of childhood sexual abuse, 9% had a female-only perpetrator and other 9% had both male and female perpetrators.[7]
The sexual abuse of children by women, primarily mothers, constituted 25% (approximately 36 000 children) of the sexually abused victims. This statistic is thought to be underestimated due to the tendency of non-disclosure by victims.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_child_molesters
