Pojkar på på ungdomsanstalter utnyttjas sexuellt visar studie

Amerikanska Justitiedepartementet har i en studie fått ett oväntat resultat gällande sexuella övergrepp på barn och ungdomar på ungdomsanstalter utförda av myndighetspersoner.
Det har framkommit att kvinnliga vårdare och väktare har utnyttjat och utnyttjar unga pojkar sexuellt.

Den nya studien visar att problemet är mer utbrett än man tidigare trott, man uppskattar att 8% av pojkar som är i förvar har utnyttjas av kvinnliga vårdare och väktare, en siffra som varit stadig de senaste tre åren.

Twenty percent who said they were victimized by staff said it happened on more than 10 occasions. Nine out of 10 victims were males abused by female staff.

Nearly two-thirds of the abused youngsters said that the officials lured them into sexual relationships by giving them special treatment, treating them like a favorite, giving gifts and pictures.

Twenty-one percent said staff gave them drugs or alcohol in exchange for sex.

Stannow said that the rate of abuse perpetrated by female guards on male victims is the result of a “dangerous combination” of cultural and institutional problems, not the least of which is the fact that women forcing males into sex does not comport with society’s conventional definition of rape.

“When you have an extreme power differential and absolute unchecked power, bad things start happening,” Stannow said. “When you combine this with a culture where sex abuse by females on males isn’t taken seriously, then you have the perfect set-up for women with all this power to get away with it.”

Media Länkar:

Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them   (ProPublica)

Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2012   (United States Department of Justice)

Female Guards at Juvenile Jails Sexually Abuse Boys  (Newser)