Word: rapists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johns, 32, a convicted rapist, worked by day as a desk clerk in a retirement hotel and as a leader of a young-adults group at his church. By night, he prowled the streets of a middle-class neighborhood of two-story frame and brick houses on the edge of Hollywood. Police believe he may have raped as many as 100 women, ranging in age from 24 to 71, living in a ten-block radius. One of his victims, Sandra Trine, 37, died when she choked on her own vomit during the rape. On Aug. 11, after pleading guilty...
Groth says that most rapists have wives or girlfriends and are not sexually deprived. They rape for power. "They are insecure, inadequate people who don't feel in control of their own lives or themselves." One rapist told Groth...
...Another rapist told his therapy group in Florida that he started out as a Peeping Tom before graduating to rape. "I started feeling bad about myself and guilty about what I was doing," he said. "The only way to make me feel better was to make them feel worse...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
Studies and statistics offer a rough picture of a "typical" rapist. He is young, most likely between the ages of 15 and 19. He is apt to strike in summer rather than in winter, at night rather than by day, and half the time he rapes the victim in her home. He is usually poor and, like three-quarters of all rapists, he was sexually abused as a child. But experts say the statistics are too sketchy to categorize rapists; the exceptions spill across all social classes. Says Judy Ravitz, executive director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against...