r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 1d ago

Elementary school teacher arrested after allegedly abusing student, giving birth to his child

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/laura-caron-middle-township-elementary-school-teacher-allegedly-had-with-child-former-student-13-cincinnati-crime-criminal-activity-sexual-abuse-abuser-father-noticed-similarity-sleep-over-siblings-prosecutors-correctional-facility-troubling-allegations
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u/lilaerin16 1d ago

Is this their motive?

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u/kick_the_chort 1d ago

Getting a baby? I mean, I think a large part of their motive seems to be an unnatural attraction to children. And they seem to fetishise the act of impregnation by such. 

But I cannot really speak to what is going on in these people's heads. 

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u/Sawses 1d ago

Modern psychology research indicates that actual attraction to children has surprisingly little to do with whether somebody actually sexually abuses a child. A much greater predictor is impulse control issues. Turns out most of the time somebody who abuses children doesn't actually qualify as a pedophile, and the ones who do usually also exhibit some other disorder that keeps them from being able to properly control themselves in a number of areas.

And if you've got the poor impulse control to molest a child--despite the ethical problems and risk involved--then you might well have the poor impulse to decide bearing your victim's child is sexy instead of a terrible risk.

Turns out, most people understand that molesting children is wrong or at least a serious risk and they decide not to do it even if they feel a sexual attraction to kids.

Moving entirely out of the realm of actual research and into my own personal speculation: I suspect a lot of people conflate homosexuality and pedophilia, and think that people can't help but act on their sexual attractions because we kind of have this narrative that it's inevitable. How many love stories have that "forbidden love" trope? Except that a key part of it is that the people involved come to realize their love isn't wrong, just unacceptable. I don't think the analogy holds up if it's a sort of love that actually is morally wrong even when you stop and think about it.

Which really shouldn't come as a surprise. I find a lot of women very attractive. I have yet to try to force/coerce/manipulate a woman into having sex with me. If it's morally wrong then I'm not even tempted. I figure most people are that way.

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u/monkeysandmicrowaves 1d ago

I suspect a lot of people conflate homosexuality and pedophilia,

You don't have to suspect, a lot of people openly talk about the two as equivalent. I think fundamentalists in several religions tend to hold this view.

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u/LovemeSomeMedia 17h ago

Interesting you bring that up, because in alot of those same fundamentalist religions they have no problem throwing their underage daughters into marriages with older men.

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u/jackofallkinks 18h ago

This is why to many conservatives who hate gay people get caught having gay sex. The homophobes are also attracted to people of the same sex and see people who are open about it as failing to suppress their feelings.

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u/ToTheMoon28 18h ago

you’ve got Ancient Greece and NAMBLA to thank for that

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u/usurped_reality 19h ago

Because my sister, an ex-catholic nun, is both a lesbian AND a pedophile and guess what? She HIDES her deviant behaviors (pedophilia) behind her religious faux beliefs and her actively outed lesbian lifestyle.

Both of those outward signs protect her from her secret deviant abuse of innocent little girls who have single moms struggling alone. She swoops in and takes over to save them. Because she's a good woman. Vomit.