Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nazis of Antelope Valley--skinheads jacked up on crystal methamphetamines and flipping each other Sieg heil salutes, drew this diagnosis from the director of a local gang-prevention center: "Virtually all were abused, sexually and otherwise, as kids, and they hate the world." A young Nazi makes an unpersuasive victim, but still...one member of the Sharps--an interesting hybrid, skinheads devoted to racial tolerance--had a meth-addict mother and a pothead father, an alcoholic stepfather and a favorite aunt who died of a heroin overdose...
Letourneau is an adult who misused her position of authority to prey upon a vulnerable child both physically and emotionally. Claims that the young victim wanted to have sex and was very mature for his age deserve contempt. The molestation of young boys by adult women remains one of the least acknowledged crimes in our society and one of the most harmful. LAUREL E. FEDERBUSH Ann Arbor, Mich...
...caught between the pressures of a failed marriage and financial bankruptcy. And her lover is no man, but a child. We should not romanticize adults who use children as outlets for frustrations and needs. Whether the perpetrator is an attractive woman or a menacing 300-lb. biker, whether the victim is male or female, statutory rape is a serious crime with devastating consequences for our children. ALLAN J. LICHTMAN Washington
...long buried and forgotten. There would be no clemency by the judge and no five-page story in TIME. And rightly so. There is nothing remotely romantic about the rape and sexual assault of a child, and nothing can mitigate its horror, certainly not the "complicity" of the victim. Those of us who hear daily the unrelenting litany of trauma and agony that such assaults cause wonder if Jerry Springer is taking over the world. JON S. WHITE Men'sWork Counselling & Education Services Wasaga Beach...
McCarthy said the victim described her perpetrator as "a heavy-set, black male of college age or older, with close cropped hair, wearing dark, baggy jeans and a long-sleeve shirt or sweatshirt...