Double standard: Female sex offenders can get ‘sweetheart deals’
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Females make up a minuscule percentage of sexual assault offenders, but many go unreported and unpunished.
Just 3 percent of the people listed on the state’s sex offender registry for Northeast Mississippi are females. But officials say the actual number should be higher.
“One of the biggest problems is male victims are a lot less likely to come forward,” said Tupelo Police Lt. Lynette Sandin. “There is a stigma, they are embarrassed.”
In her nine years of working with victims, S.A.F.E. Inc. crisis counselor Susan Naron has only had one male sexual assault victim. And she worked with him over the phone.
“Many of them don’t want to come forward, even though it is causing problems,” Naron said. “There is a stigma to being a male victim.”
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