Child Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by Women: Case Series and Review of the Literature
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Curti, Serena Maria ; Lupariello, Francesco ; Coppo, Elena ; Praznik, Evan Julian [1] ; Racalbuto, Sara Simona ; Di Vella, Giancarlo
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[1] University of Denver
University of Denver
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 64, Nº. 5, 2019, págs. 1427-1437
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The literature on child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated by female sexual offenders (FSOs) is exiguous, and many studies havefocused on judicial databases. The present retrospective study, instead, analyzed clinical and judicial data of a group of both victims and allegedFSOs, to additionally include women who have not been convicted by the criminal justice system, but who hold strong clinical suspicions ofbeing perpetrators of CSA. The medical records and the Court files of 11 children and their eight suspected FSOs have been collected and criti-cally reviewed in light of the literature to date. This approach allowed for a deeper understanding of the relationship between child and FSO.The authors hypothesize that the victims’severe psychopathological outcomes were a result of a failure to develop appropriate attachments withtheir prospective caregivers, which could have been damaged by the pathological relationship with FSOs, who were the victims’caregivers.
