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(My) Sex Criminal Archetypes

By Smith Law Offices,

Child molestation cases (in my experience) tend to be matters consisting of four types(in decreasing order of occurence):  First, an "adult" who is intellectually a child, or is obviously psychologically damaged in some way, perpetrates an act on a child.  The adult is more easily able to relate to the child as a peer rather than other adults and sees the child as a legitamate object of "love" or as an equally legitamate object of sexual desire because psychologically/mentally the child is a peer.  Defendants with mild mental retardation or severe and obvious psychological issues often fall into this category. Second, an adult who, although psycholigically and/or mentally is an adult, has a prurient interest in children...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).