One in ten men have carried out sex offences against children

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Have you seen this item?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-in-ten-men-have-carried-out-sex-offences-against-children-says-survey-fjhd59fhn

Is paedophilia really this common?
I once heard a man (a psychologist I think) say on Radio 4 that he thought most men look at very young teens or even children inappropriately. It's a very disturbing thought.

sashh I am inclined to agree with you. Some patterns of abuse have changed, others are unchanged, reporting has increased, new dangers have emerged.

Police uncovering 'epidemic of child abuse' in 1970s and 80s
5 Feb 2020

"Police say they are uncovering a hidden “epidemic” of paedophile abuse in the 1970s and 1980s, with thousands of allegations leading to convictions against people who abused their power to attack children.

New figures seen by the Guardian show that 4,024 allegations led to guilty verdicts at court after police investigations since 2014 into decades-old child sex offences.

Officers say hundreds of offenders, including teachers, religious workers, youth and care workers, thought they had got away with their crimes. Many victims have been traumatised, and some have killed themselves or been left with severe mental health problems.

Police believe the figures, which show that 35% of all allegations led to guilty verdicts, demonstrate that inquiries into non-recent sexual abuse are not “spaffing money up the wall”, as Boris Johnson last year claimed. Labour said Johnson should apologise to victims.

Officers believe there are many more allegations to come, and Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the national lead for child protection and abuse investigations, told the Guardian: “We are now having to come to terms, as a society, and we are going to have to recognise and accept, that during the 1970s and 1980s in particular, there was widespread sexual abuse of children taking place.

“These allegations and the vast majority of cases were never reported to the authorities. Some victims did not think they were going to be believed. There was one constant factor: there was an abuse of power … to satisfy their sexual desires.” . . .

. . . "“The really difficult thing to come to terms with is the untold damage that’s been done to victims and survivors. Some could not cope. It’s the toll that it has taken on their lives. Some victims committed suicide. Some coped, some are in the mental care system. The horrors bestowed on these children are horrific.”

Contemporary cases of child sexual abuse are also rising. “Policing today is having to deal with the sins of the past,” the chief constable said, with some paedophiles who offended in the past still presenting a danger today."

Full article:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/05/police-uncovering-epidemic-of-child-abuse-in-1970s-and-80s

Children vulnerable to abuse and violence during coronavirus lockdowns, UN experts warn
7 April 2020
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061282

INTERPOL report highlights impact of COVID-19 on child sexual abuse
7 Sept 2020
https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2020/INTERPOL-report-highlights-impact-of-COVID-19-on-child-sexual-abuse

Covid-19: Rise in suspected child abuse cases after lockdown
16 Jan 2021
("After" should be read as "during")
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55682745

Lockdowns linked to tenfold rise in child abuse imagery
27 Jan 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64415015

Did anyone track down the source material for the claims made in the Times' report?

The article mentions an ISPCAN Congress. I took a look at the papers being presented but nothing seemed to line up as a possible source for the data. It did not seem like the papers were available for download.

I couldn't find anything, Checking.

Considering how young girls are when adult men start commenting on their looks etc how can you be surprised.

Yes. me too. 11 years old, awkward and a bit chubby, bad hair, no make up, horrible school uniform - fucking endless sexual attention from grown men. Including being flashed at, wanked at, obscene comments, and followed home.

I'm sadly not surprised by these statistics. I have worked in child protection for a short time, and CSE is a feature more often than not one way or another. And these are the ones who are caught, many many more go unreported and unidentified.

With all due respect to all the PPs saying they work in child safeguarding/law enforcement (genuine respect - incredibly hard and difficult work: thank you for doing it) - your work is not showing you the risk of offending in the general male population. If you work with the families of children being abused and with sexual offenders/viewers of CSE, you are working with groups who inevitably have a high percentage of abusers.

It doesn’t say what % are 18 year olds snogging a 16-17 old

Yes you are right, it is hard to maintain a positive view of humanity, and men in particular, in that line of work. And you are also right that I was dealing with vulnerable children, which also makes them more likely to experience exploitation. But if my families were almost 100% some form of CSE as a feature, then the 10% of the general population feels about right.

I see your experiences and I would like to add, I attended a catholic girls school. Those three words seem to make men excited.

I've always thought it's a bit paedophilic to expect us to shave our pubes. Why would you only be attracted to a prepubescent looking vagina?