Redhead-ARS would be a prime candidate for sexual molestation with an absent father.
I have a relative who worked with the most crazy of sex offenders and she said that the biggest cause of them being sex offenders was emotional abuse in the family, not sex abuse. Very interesting.
Thank you for that insight. 3 of the 4 perpetrators in my daughters' case do somewhat fit that profile as well. Especially the boy they considered the 'ringleader' in the assault. He also exhibited some other disturbing problems as I came to find out through the courts - prior fire-setting, school trouble, etc... And his mother was in total denial. He had a step-father in the home, but these problems were there before he entered the picture, IIRC the time frames.
The 2 youngest also had a step-father in the picture, but their father - although they saw him pretty often, I don't know what their relationship was really like. I could go into more detail, but these two were way too young to be responsible for their actions, and were heavily influenced by the older boys.
The only child that did not fit the profile also had problems that resulted in him being home-schooled, but I'm not sure what they were. (I home-school myself, so I'm not disparaging H-S'ing families - just in this case there were reasons other than educational, religious, or otherwise). I will say one thing.
This child in particular had a conscience, and a lot of remorse once he began to mature a bit more. Remorse enough to the point that there had been a minor* molestation of my older daughter by him that no-one knew about. My older daughter had been keeping it a secret. He actually went to police under his own volition (with his parents) and confessed to the incident, thus bringing it to our attention. Although he was older, he was somewhat immature for his age when these things happened, and I have faith that he - who complied with counseling, and all of the court's demands in the other instance - actually had a chance of being rehabilitated. (All of the children were under the age of 12 when it occurred, and "on schedule" when his mind began to mature his understanding did as well. A
totally different response than the other child who never showed remorse, or tears, or anything... (I have no belief that the other child was rehabilitated because his parents never showed up to any of the civil case arguments, and didn't even attempt to defend their son at all - which ended up in a default summary judgement for us.)
Anyway, like I said, thanks for the insight. As a survivor myself of familial abuse, and the mother of two survivors I know that not all abused kids end up being abusers. Most of us know how horrible it is, and would never even dream of hurting someone else. So, if an absent father or emotionally abusive one is a major factor that definitely makes sense to me.
* - Please understand no sexual abuse, molestation or assault is ever "minor" to the victim. However, legally and in comparison to the other event it was
very different, and the fact that he came forward with it at all when it likely would have gone forever unknown was actually rather surprising to all of us involved (lawyer, police, counselors, etc...). It gave us hope in his ability to be rehabilitated.