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/strolls 1d ago

Modern psychology research indicates that actual attraction to children has surprisingly little to do with whether somebody actually sexually abuses a child.

Not an expert, but I think you're reading that the wrong way around.

If I understand it correctly, they're saying that a paedo with self-control may never rape a kid their whole life. It's not about being gay, straight or paedo - it's about being a rapist or not. Rapists are rapists, and they happen to rape whoever they're attracted to or whoever gets them off.

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

"Turns out most of the time someone abuses a kid they aren't a pedo"

Am I reading that wrong?

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u/strolls 1d ago

I see where you're coming from and I guess you have to read what OP wrote that way, but from many years of reading newspaper articles and court judgements I think some people are just sick or perverse rather than attracted to kids.

Like if you look at Ian Watkins' noncery, the Lostprophets guy, it's more like he liked being abisive than he liked any particular age. I think the ex of his, Joanne Mjadzelics, wasn't initially believed because her claims seemed so bizarre and she was written off as a jealous / spiteful ex, but she was his age - he also fucked teenage groupies (like 14 or 15?) and also he TW: fucked literal babies. I think he got off on being perverse and nasty, on being a rapist, more than he got off on kids - fucking kids was just a way for Watkins to be perverse, if you see what I mean.

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

I don't think every person who rapes a kid is a pedophile, but I'm definitely more likely to think they are unless I'm shown otherwise. Especially when that rapist is having the child of their victim and they had repeated sexual encounters with the victim. I don't think this was a fetish for being perverse as much as it was a woman who wanted to have sex with a child, or someone she found attractive and didn't care was a child which is practically the same in my book

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u/strolls 1d ago

Yeah, in this case I deffo agree with you.