Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Be Kicked Out of the Church Nursery?
Dr. Helen’s article says that the Justice Department report claims that women account for 6% of sexual predations against children and 12% of attacks on children under six. She links to a news article which references the report. But the original source document, the report itself, says that in incidents of sexual assault reported to police, women are the accused 6% of the time. [Snyder, H. (2000, July), Sexual assault of young children as reported to law enforcement: Victim, incident, and offender characteristics.] This doesn’t mean a crime OCCURRED, it means a crime was REPORTED. Further, the data was collected between 1991-1996, which was during the tail end of the ritual abuse frenzy when dozens of female pre-school teachers were being accused of sacrificing infants, slaughtering animals and sexually assaulting little children as part of secret nation-wide cult of satanists. There was a dramatic rise in reports of child sexual abuse during this period, and I would view any statistics produced during this time with great skepticism.
