Not all child molesters* are blokes either!
Why is it that if a bloke abuses a young child and gets found out they are (rightly) punished accordingly (mostly). Yet when a woman is found to have done the same all they seem to get is a light rap on the knuckles and told (mostly) not to do it again? In the cases that I have read about anyway - I could be wrong on this.

I accept that men are more likely to engage in this sort of squalid and utterly reprehensible, repugnant behaviour. But there also some depraved women out there as well equally capable of committing vile acts.

(I think that in this case, theWeeWitch was right to trust her daughters instincts, but would hope that she is sufficiently aware to realise that not every strange bloke is a potential threat).

I could also go into a whole rant about the vilification of 'absent fathers' in child maintenance cases, when stats have shown that about 10% of absent parents are actually the mothers.

But I won't.

*Use of word 'paedophile' vetoed on grounds that it might give the sweary one a coronary.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 21 Apr 2008, 13:47, Reply)