Keeping Them Safe

The Thing About Female Perpetrators

Sharon Doty Season 2 Episode 11

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Most people assume that the majority of perpetrators of child sexual abuse are men and while that is accurate, at least 20% of all child sexual abuse is committed by women and almost 80% of the time it is a biological parent - a mother - who is the offender. This episode starts to deal with the unique issues of discovering abuse by a female parent or sibling and what we know and don't know about how this happens.