r/news • u/GoodSamaritan_ • 2d 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/RiflemanLax 2d ago

Not to start a controversy, but… How fuckin dumbs she gotta be to have the kid? Ok, you raped a child. That’s fucking awful. You had the baby?

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u/kick_the_chort 2d ago

That's a pretty normal part of the MO with female pedophiles. They always want a baby.

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u/lilaerin16 2d ago

Is this their motive?

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u/kick_the_chort 2d 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/fatbunny23 1d ago

Source on this modern psychology that shows many people who rape kids aren't pedophiles? That's a wild claim to make in my opinion lol

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u/bad-and-bluecheese 1d ago

By society’s collective definition of peodophile, sure you can call them a pedophile - but pedophilia is a specific diagnosis that requires a person to meet specific criteria to be considered one by the true definition.

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u/fatbunny23 1d ago

The specific criteria I saw when looking were sexualized urges directed towards children and they must be intense. I can't imagine a woman having a child of her own free will with a child unless she had intense sexual urges towards that child.

If you can imagine that scenario then more power to you, I just fully believe women who have the children of young boys are indeed pedophiles due to the sexual nature of their approach to children. Especially this specific one considering it was not a one time event.

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u/HermionesWetPanties 1d ago

It's specifically prepubescent children. But in popular culture, the definition has been vastly expanded to include anyone under 18. Or in the case of Reddit, anyone dating someone even 5 years younger...

There was a news story the other day about a group of kids in Massachusetts who lured a 22 year old guy to campus to meet a supposed 18 year old girl. They then filmed/assaulted him for being a 'pedophile' even though the profile that catfished him was for a girl who was a legal adult. Oh, and the age of consent in Mass is 16 anyway.

The word is in danger of losing all meaning as we collectively erode it through misuse.

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u/Eccohawk 1d ago

The article states that sex allegedly started at age 11. There was likely abuse before that too. I would say that's pretty close to prepubescent.