If there was just one thing you’d think everyone would agree on it’s this – paedophiles are bad people.
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It’s a no-brainer, right? How could anyone in their right mind think an adult raping a child is anything but repulsive and reprehensible?
But there are people out there who seem to be okay with paedophilia – as long as the offender is a woman.
If it’s a male paedophile, the public speaks with one clear voice – disgust.
But if it’s a female taking advantage of a child or a teen, well, a shocking number of people seem to view that as less of a crime.
Any time there’s news of a female teacher having sex with a student, some of the comments on social media are shocking.
They treat it as a bit of a laugh – and some are envious of the paedophile’s victim.
They make comments like “Jeez, I wish I had a teacher like that when I was at school.”
It’s part of a broader disconnect that so many have in society when a female is accused of this sort of crime.
The poster child for this is US school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau (pictured).
In 1996 she slept with her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau, and fell pregnant to him. She was jailed and went back for more after her release – and was sent back to jail.
Shockingly, much of the media coverage over the years has been sympathetic – she went on about how she was in love with her victim and plenty of people accepted that.
Hell, there was even a movie, which portrays her relationship with a 12-year-old as some kind of “forbidden love”.
As recently as two years ago they did an interview where they gave “intimate details” of their first sexual encounter.
There was – and still is – a perverse and sickening interest in her life that would have never happened had she been a male offender.
Really, a child sex offender shouldn’t get an easy run just because she’s a woman.