Females Sexually Abusing Children
Another Female Paedophile Walks Free
A “RESPECTED” former Queensland Health employee has avoided jail despite pleading guilty to repeatedly having sex with alcohol or drug-addled boys aged 14 and 15.
Lawyers for former QH indigenous health care worker Pandela Carmel Salmon claim the acts were committed when she was deeply depressed at work – from alleged bullying – and suffering rare side effects of prescription medication.
Prosecutor Andrew Lossberg told the Brisbane District Court Salmon lured the boys into sex after alcohol and drug-fuelled parties at her Kallangur home, north of Brisbane, more than four years ago.
Mr Lossberg said that the morning after a night of sex Salmon told one boy: “This could be our little secret. Whenever you want some (more sex) you can come here and get it.”
Fraud in Australia’s plan to reduce violence against women
The 2009 Australian project a ‘Time for Action: The National Council’s Plan for Australia to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, 2009-2021′, was approved for implementation by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). The Plan, which is split into several parts, puts forth recommendations for new legislation, changes to judicial processes, requests for funding and ideas for domestic programs targeted at reducing domestic and sexual violence against women. The advisory council has some powers to implement programs through the Office of Women among other agencies, but much of what the government funded program calls for requires approval by Parliament.
The entire premise of the National Plan was underpinned by the belief in this statement:“While a small proportion of men are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, the majority of people who experience this kind of violence are women in a home, at the hands of men they know.”[27-pg1] But a quick examination of the statistics and data shows a much different picture to the rather sweeping indictment of Australian men the National Council paints.
Child Abuse by Mothers in Australia – A case study
Nobody believed ‘Frank’ when he tried to protect his son from bureaucratic bungling. John Stapleton reports that, nearly 20 years on, Frank has been proved right, even though he lost in court.
The boy was eight weeks old when his father called welfare authorities and pleaded with them to take his son into foster case. He alleged that the mother was being violent towards the child, throwing him against walls and trying to smother him. The authorities ignored him, as they did for years to come, but the father persevered.
Twenty years, 550 days in court and tens of millions of dollars of public funds later, the matter which has just run across the civil, criminal and family law jurisdictions, reached its final chapter this week.
Another Woman guilty of sex act with boys
A Goldfields woman has been granted bail after being found guilty of sexually penetrating a teenage boy and attempting to encourage him to engage in sexual behaviour.
But Donna-Marie Farrell, 34, was acquitted of three similar allegations made by another boy concerning the same incident.
They jury deliberated for five hours before handing down its verdicts on the charges.
Ms Farrell was found not guilty of two counts of indecent dealings with a child under 16, not guilty of one count of sexual penetration or oral sex of a child under 16 and not guilty of encouraging a child under 16 to engage in sexual behaviour.
23 Women charged with Child Porn
TWENTY-THREE women from across Sweden have been charged with involvement in what investigators call a unique child pornography case because most of the suspects are female.
A 43-year old man today was charged with having provided them with 510 films and photos of children being exploited in “especially ruthless” manner.
The women, aged between 38 and 70, allegedly met the man online and received and accepted the files he sent them. Seven of them have confessed. Some of them are also suspected of having spread the material and two of producing child pornographic photographs themselves.
Detective Inspector Bjorn Sellstrom says it’s the first time, in both Sweden and the world, that so many women have been involved in such a case.
Female teacher arrested for having sex with five students
A 27 year old married teacher with three children, has been jailed after being accused of having sex with five of her students during an orgy at her home.
Police said Brittni Nicole Colleps also exchanged sexually-explicit text and picture messages with the students prior to her arrest.
Brittni Colleps, invited the boys to her home for the sex romp and the encounter was filmed on their cell phones.
The 27-year-old’s husband was away overseas on duty serving with the US military.
Colleps, an English teacher and girl’s basketball coach, faces up to ten years in jail after being charged with five felony counts of inappropriate relationships between a student and a teacher.
Although all five of the teens involved with Colleps were 18 years of age or older, Texas law prohibits sex between a teacher and a student, regardless of the student’s age.
According to a police arrest warrant affidavit, the investigation into Colleps began after a 19-year-old student told investigators about his sexual relationship with his English teacher.
The student told police the relationship began with sexually explicit text messages and photos that they sent to each other for about a week in late April.
Later that month the student drove to Colleps home in Arlington, Texas where they had sex.
He later received a text message from the teacher saying they ‘had fun’ and an invite back to the house.
When he arrived there were four other students from Kennedale High School present and they told police they all had sex with Colleps.
When police analyzed the teen’s phone they found video footage of him and Colleps having sex. They also found sexually explicit photos and text messages the pair had sent each other.
Police later interviewed a second student who said he was present when the sex romp took place.
School officials learned about the teacher’s alleged relationships and put her on leave with pay.
Schools Superintendent Gary Dugger posted a letter on the school’s website saying that the district was cooperating with investigators.
‘As the alleged acts occurred off campus, once Kennedale ISD personnel were put on notice, immediate action was taken,’ the letters says.
Colleps is being held in the Arlington jail on $125,000 bail after turning herself into police on Monday.
Ms Colleps could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 if convicted.
8 Years Jail for Sexually Abusive House Mistress
A “WICKED, terrible” woman who sexually abused six boys at the school where she worked was yesterday jailed for at least five years.
The school house mistress, now 42, told a psychiatrist her conduct with the 11 and 12-year-old boys made her feel like “a child, a rock star, a goddess”.
In sentencing her in the District Court, Judge Anthony Garling said that the naive boys were in “no position to deal with this predatory behaviour”.
“She did it for her own sexual gratification,” he said, before setting a maximum term of eight years.
Last December the judge rejected the woman’s defence of mental illness and found her guilty of 21 sex offences carried out over a five-month period in 2009. The judge referred to a statement by a victim’s mother, who described the teacher as a “wicked, terrible woman” who was being paid in her job as she was carrying out her sexual offending.
The mother said she would never be able to forgive the teacher for what she had done “to my beautiful little boy”.
She will be eligible for release on parole in March 2016.
By Margaret Scheikowski
School mistress offered boys oral sex
A SCHOOL house mistress who sexually abused six boys should be sentenced on the basis of her crimes, not her gender, a Sydney judge has been told.
Crown prosecutor Kara Shead told Judge Anthony Garling his sentencing approach should be the same as if the perpetrator was a man.
Defence lawyer, Christopher Watson, said while the boys suffered harm, the damage was “unlikely to be as significant” as if the perpetrator was male and the victims female, “because of the actual nature of the act”.
The youthful-looking 41-year-old woman was facing a sentencing hearing today in the NSW District Court.
In December, Judge Garling rejected her defence of mental illness, finding her guilty of 21 sex offences involving boys, aged 11 or 12, who attended the NSW school where she worked.
The 2009 offences included 18 counts of sexual intercourse, involving fellatio and penile-vaginal penetration.
In one incident when five boys were in the tent, she was naked and asked: “Does anyone want a blow job?”.
One victim later said the woman had pressured the boys, saying: “Come on, let’s go, don’t be a puss”, and he had “felt like a wimp” until he agreed to oral sex.
The judge found the woman was suffering from bipolar disorder at the time, but that she knew her actions were legally and morally wrong.
On Monday, the woman’s psychiatrist Mike Richardson said he did not think she had been operating in a predatory manner.
“Rather, it was the environment that allowed her to pursue a promiscuous approach to these boys,” he said, agreeing with the judge that it was an “ideal” environment.
Dr Richardson said the woman, who now had a partner a little older than herself, received sexual gratification from the boys.
Ms Shead said the woman occupied a “privileged position”, being an adult from whom the victims sought care, solace and comfort.
“The crown submits that she took advantage of the situation to form highly inappropriate sexual relationships with multiple child victims over an extensive period of time,” she said.
“She engaged in frequent criminal behaviour of the gravest kind.”
Ms Shead said the woman exploited the victims’ age and their vulnerable situation, noting most of them were away from their parents.
“Aged 11 or 12, these were little boys who were exposed to significant depravity,” she said.
Mr Watson said the woman had not disputed the facts in the case and the only live issue had been her mental state.
He submitted that a lengthy jail term would institutionalise her.
“I suggest a short period of incarceration would allow her to come out and not lose contact with the rehabilitation programs currently put in place,” he said, referring to her ongoing psychiatric treatment.
The judge revoked her bail and adjourned sentencing to Thursday.
Mother-Son Incest: Hidden in Shame and Rising
Sons Don’t Report It, ‘Cunning’ Mothers Rarely Reveal It and Society Finds Topic Too ‘Ugly’.
Gregg Milligan sexually abused by his own mother.
The molestation began as gentle fondling when Gregg Milligan was 4 years old, but it soon escalated to aggressive touching and eventually beatings that would render him unconscious.
For seven years, until Michigan child welfare workers intervened when he was 11, Milligan was too ashamed to reveal that his tormentor was his own mother.
“She was very brutal,” said Milligan. “Through her difficulty reaching climax, she would become frustrated and violent, hitting and punching and slapping not only my genitals, but my face and body.”
“It was terribly confusing, and it wasn’t just the violation,” said Milligan, now 46, and director of infrastructure for a major health care provider in Michigan.
As bad as the incest was, things got worse. Milligan’s father had left when he was 2, but by the time he was 8, his mother, an alcoholic and a prostitute, invited strange men home who would sexually abuse him.
“Back then I would never tell anyone, not even a sibling,” said Milligan, the most “compliant and sensitive” of three children living at home. “I was just too afraid. It was so horrendous for me to believe she actually would do this to me.”
One of the unspeakable secrets in the world of child sexual abuse is that mothers can be molesters. Often, they prey on daughters, but more frequently their sons — who report increased feelings of isolation and sexual confusion along with thoughts of suicide.
Both of Milligan’s parents are now dead, but his past still haunts him.
“Around 10 years old, I started to get this unbelievable feeling of dread that if I don’t get out I am going to die from the decadence, the debauchery, the forced molestations and the beatings that became more severe,” he said. “For three months I suffered from hysterical paralysis.”
An estimated one in four girls and one in seven boys will be sexually assaulted or abused before the age of 18, according to the Alabama-based National Children’s Advocacy Center . In 27 percent of these cases, the abuse is perpetrated by the child’s parents.
Previous studies of day care workers published in 2000 in the Journal of Sex Research, found that women — without male accomplices — accounted for only about 6 percent of the abuse of females and 14 percent of males.
But more recent national surveys indicate about 12 percent of all child sexual abuse cases are committed by women — “a 100 percent increase compared with previous data,” according to Chris Newlin, NCAC’s executive director.
“We view females as care givers and protectors of children,” he told ABCNews.com. “Now we are beginning to understand females are sexually abusing children, and it is occurring much more.”
Professionals are stymied by public perception that incest is “an ugly subject,” and that women can’t commit such crimes.
“If it’s a 35-year-old female and a 14-year-old boy, we’d say the boy is getting lucky,” said Newlin. “And if it was a 35 year-old male and a 14-year-old girl, we’d call that a pervert.”
“We have this overarching thing that goes back to the Salem witch trials of children making up stories,” said Newlin. “You can’t trust kids.”
Survivors like Milligan say that these crimes often go unnoticed, not just because society can’t imagine women as aggressors, but because boys feel riddled with shame.
“There is this terrible stigma that boys crave sex,” said Milligan. “We are just as impressionable and naive and just as afraid. How can anything be consensual at 4 or 11 years old?”
He was finally able to tell all in the self-published memoir he took a decade to write — initially titled “God Must Be Sleeping,” he changed the title to reflect a more upbeat chronicle of his survival, “A Beautiful World.”
But Milligan has much to be positive about. Though his childhood was ravaged, he has managed to raise a son, now 23, who “has never known violence or abuse.”
Today, Milligan is a spokesman for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, sharing his experiences as a survivor.
About 10 percent of all crisis calls to the RAINN hotline are from males, according to program director Jennifer Wilson, who said they get about 100,000 calls a year.
“This crime is hard to track because people just don’t share it with law enforcement,” she told ABCNews.com.
In September, when child star MacKenzie Phillips went on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” to disclose her father had raped her at the age of 19, calls to RAINN’s hotline from incest victims “spiked.”
Mothers who sexually abuse tend to have higher rates of mental illness and are often the victims of abuse themselves. They also have easier access to children.
“It’s easy for women to go unnoticed,” said Wilson. “And at the legal stage, they get lighter sentences.”
Because incest is considered taboo, few boys come forward and social service providers are not often trained in detecting signs in women abusers.
One victim, Dominic Carter, a TV news reporter in New York, wrote about his own abuse at the hands of his mother in his 2007 memoir, “No Momma’s Boy.” Earlier this month, Carter was convicted of attempted assault after a 2008 fight with his wife, and could face up to three months in jail.
As a child, Milligan turned his anguish inward.
“My brother and sister could leave the house and naturally play with friends,” he said. “I was petrified to leave mother. The clear sense was that if I did, the punishment would be worse.”
His mother also threatened to kill herself and Milligan said he more than once was hit by cars while chasing his mother into the street.
His father was equally volatile, returning once to beat his mother “so bad he left her with an eye hanging out of the socket.”
Teachers were also unaware of the abuse. “In their defense, I was kept out of school,” he said about his frequent injuries. “My mother was very cunning.”
The family was on welfare, but when social service workers paid their visits, the children were “always pushed out of the house and not allowed to come home,” Milligan said.
Dr. Carole Jenny, a pediatrician and director of the Child Protection Program at Hasbrow Children’s Hospital in Providence, R.I., said sexual abuse by mothers is “really hard to diagnose — most of the time it’s not witnessed.”
“Most kids have normal exams, and most parents give a credible history,” she said. “Most prepubescent boys and girls don’t have any lasting physical findings. Abrasions and redness disappear within 24 hours of the event.”
For young children, like Milligan, who eventually called an older married sister to intervene, getting help is difficult.
“I was sneaking money and stealing coins and running down to the pay phone and begging, ‘Please come and save us,’” he said. “She eventually did but was reluctant because she was afraid.”
After a court battle — his mother unsuccessfully sought custody — Milligan lived for a time with his sister, immersing himself in books and trying to catch up.
He had missed so much school that he could only read at a third-grade level.
“I could tell time and tie my shoes, but I struggled through my first book, Dr. Seuss’ ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’” he said. “I read the whole summer and pored though every book I checked out of the library. By seventh grade I barely passed, but I never quit. I kept trying and trying.”
Panic Attacks and Intimacy Issues
But the abuse took its toll. Until he was 16, Milligan had panic attacks and wet his bed, seeing countless child psychologists and therapists.
But by the time he was asked to leave his sister’s at 16, he was an A student and involved in athletics.
Though he drifted out of foster homes and shelter with friends and priests, Milligan eventually went on to college and later graduate school.
“To this day the one question people ask is why I survived,” he said. “I don’t know, maybe there was something bigger and better than all of us and I tapped in to it. But I remind people it doesn’t come without its problems.”
As an adult, Milligan now needs medication to sleep and still has chronic nightmares, as well as anxiety attacks. “I find myself carrying around a paper bag, but I’ve managed to avoid the pitfalls of any addictions,” he said.
Some men who are abused by their mothers become hypersexual or addicted to pornography, others avoid contact altogether.
Milligan, too, struggles with intimacy in relationships. His first marriage ended in divorce, but he has since remarried. “She is a wonderful woman and working with me in therapy.”
Milligan’s “happy ending” was watching his son from the first marriage — “the sweetest, most gentle young man” — recently graduate summa cum laude from college.
“If there is any indication of success, it’s not me or the fact that I graduated from college or writing a professional position,” he said. “It’s my son — he has never known violence, only love.”
But his own attitude has also fueled Milligan’s recovery. “I wanted to focus on the possibility of change and perseverance,” he said. “I honestly don’t know why I chose to read instead of doing drugs.”
With good treatment, many male victims like Milligan do survive, according to Nancy Cotterman, director of the Broward County Sexual Abuse Treatment Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
“I don’t think they ever forget, but there are many who become empowered adolescents and adults.”
What’s lacking, say experts, is public awareness of mother-son abuse.
“We have the laws we need, the professionals in every profession and a tremendous network of highly trained and capable individuals in the U.S. to respond to sexual abuse,” said NCAC’s Newlin. “The greatest challenge is that it is such an ugly subject that most people have a hard time wanting to pay attention to it”
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mother-son-incest-rise-report-sex-abuse-agencies/story?id=9209454
Female PE teacher jailed for sex with boys
A female physical education teacher broke down in tears when a District Court judge sentenced her to more than two years in prison for having sex with two teenage boys in her care.
The 25-year-old woman from NSW, whose name has been suppressed, held her head in her hands while Judge Phillip Eaton recounted her indecent dealings with two boys, aged 15 and 16.
The woman faced nine charges relating to sexual acts that happened between December 2009 and January 2010.
She previously pleaded guilty to all charges.
The District Court heard the woman sent text messages to the boys, as well as nude and provocative pictures. She invited them on separate occasions to her home, drank alcohol with them, and had sex with them in her bedroom.
Judge Eaton noted that the woman had a troubled past, including a history of alcohol and drug abuse. She was in a violent relationship in NSW when she got the job as a physical education teacher at a high school in the Pilbara region.
It was also noted that the woman was a popular teacher who had won awards for her teaching excellence.
Her defence lawyer had made the submission that the woman was upset about having to relocate to Newman and had begun drinking more as a result of the impending move, which led her to commit the crimes.
Judge Eaton described the woman’s action as "self-destructive" and said it was "a pity" that her conviction meant she would never teach in an Australian school again.
The woman was sentenced to two years and four months in prison, but will be eligible for parole after serving 14 months.
