title: Women convicted of a sexual offence, including child pornography production: two case reports.
abstract: All available studies addressing the clinical and legal aspects of child pornography have systematically concerned male abusers. The social lens through which women are viewed tends to play down their responsibility in the sexual abuse of children. Unlike men, women rarely abuse children outside the close or family circle. Furthermore, they have frequently been abused themselves in their childhood. To our knowledge, no cases of women charged with sex-related offences, including child pornography, have been described in the literature. The psychopathological characteristics of female sexual abusers and of the two women in our cases tend to suggest that the deliberate downloading of child pornography images by women is unusual, as their deviant behaviour is not related to paedophile sexual arousal It is hypothesized that the act enables women perpetrators to satisfy the sexual urges of their spouse. Sexual abuse by women exists, but the nature of the abuse appears to be specific to the gender of the perpetrator. We present two cases of women charged with sexual offences concerning minors, including the production of child pornography material.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Psychiatry Department, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; E.A. 2114, Psychologie des âges de la vie, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France. Electronic address: sebastienprat@hotmail.fr.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prat
authors.affiliation: E.A. 2114, Psychologie des âges de la vie, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France; Centre de Ressource pour les Auteurs de Violences Sexuelles, CHRU de Tours, France.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bertsch
authors.affiliation: E.A. 2114, Psychologie des âges de la vie, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chudzik
authors.affiliation: E.A. 2114, Psychologie des âges de la vie, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France.
authors.forename: Ch
authors.initials: Ch
authors.lastname: Réveillère
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D004882:Erotica / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009042:Motivation; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior
keywords: Child abuse; Child pornography; Female sexual offender; Forensic medicine; Forensic psychiatry