About 20% of sex offenders in the UK are women, according to the Lucy Faithful Foundation (who work specifically with victims of female child sex offenders). If that's true, that would mean around 64,000.

Police think its between 5% and 25%, but have recorded rises in sex offences by women against children. LFF work with victims of abuse, specifically those abused by women, which does put them in a good position to determine.

Very few convictions seem to occur, around 5% of convictions are of women, but that's rising.

Its also less likely that abuse by women would be detectable, believed or prosecuted as well - especially where offences were committed against boys in their teens.

Thing to remember is that paedophile rings are rare, and often a construction of the media in some cases (ie people who share p***.graphy as opposed to sharing in direct offending). Most abusers work alone and use technology to share or communicate. The internet has just made that easier. Most of these people aren't getting together.

I suspect that many women have been getting away with it. Certainly groups working with families think that is the case, notably that abuse may well not be reported to the police but to social services and resolved in family court rather than criminal court.

I think that its an area that will be exposed over the next few years, with a lot of research in that areas seeming to suggest a much higher pattern of abusers than would be expected. Criminologists and forensic psychology in this area is turning up the likelihood that its far higher than believed.

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It definitely can do, I agree with that, however that doesn't preclude them from committing criminal sexual acts against children, whether they are pre or post pubity - The problem seems to me, more that we as a society have been overlooking sexual offences against children committed by women.

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If you are just going on statistics/odds, would you leave your children with members of your family?

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I didn't realise how lucky I have been until I read this thread as I spent many years in the scout movement from junior cub upwards and emerged unscathed and unmolested but perhaps paedophilia is a modern phenomenon.

Incidentally I would be interested to compare the statistics for paedophilia convictions amongst scouting leaders to criminal convictions amongst football supporters as people might not want to let their kids go to football matches if they are surrounded by low lives

Wasn't there women involved with the Rotherham paedophile ring?

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I think its the much much more that Casual is worried about..

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