Thanks to Jonjay for posting this excerpt from Kolar's book
Foreign Faction, pp 367-370
The second important event to occur that winter involved additional discoveries that were related to the behavioral symptoms of a childhood disorder.
While working on the written case outline that was completed in October 2006, I became aware of a childhood behavioral disorder that revolved around the issue of sexually aggressive children. I learned about clinical research that had been conducted on the topic of children with a behavioral disorder commonly referred to as Sexual Behavior Problems, or SBP.
I had obtained a copy of the book, Sexually Aggressive Children, Coming to Understand Them, and other research materials on that topic late that fall and began to review them in my spare time. Arajis book, in particular, provided a comprehensive overview of national research that had studied sexual abuse perpetrated by children 12 years of age and younger.
Approximately two months had passed since the mailing of my letter to the D.A.s office, and I had finished my study of the SBP text book. It was incredibly enlightening, and the case studies only served to strengthen my belief that developed from my analysis of the case that indicated some form of family cover-up.
This information is not all-inclusive but provides an overview of the behavioral symptoms seen with this childhood disorder:
Research into sexually aggressive children was described as being in its infancy in the mid1990s. (It appears that the earliest studies on this topic only dated to 1980.)
The average onset of preadolescent sexual behavior problems (SBP) are between the ages of 6-9 years.
Although the term sexual is used, the childrens intentions and motivations for these behaviors may be unrelated to sexual gratification.
Children act out for many varied reasons. Some may have been the prior victims of sexual abuse. Some may act out due to other behavioral problems related to PTSD, anger, fear, or emotional detachment. Sexual acting out has been linked to anger, rage, loneliness, and fear.
FBI UCR reports in 1979 revealed 249 rape arrests for children less than 12 years of age. Sixty-six of those children were under the age of 10.
Early research conducted in the 1980s provided evidence that preadolescent childrens behaviors can be as aggressive and violent as those of adolescents and adults.
FBI UCR discontinued reporting the age of offenders in 1980, but the National Center for Juvenile Justice reported a forcible rape rate of .02 per 1000 for 10 and 11 year olds in 1988.
1990 FBI and media reports in this time period indicate that among adults convicted of sex crimes, approximately 30% said they began offending before they were 9 years old.
A 1991 study revealed that some children engaged in behaviors that involved fire-setting, bed-wetting, animal mutilation, and scatological behaviors- (disturbed bodily functions related to urination and elimination).
A 1993 nationwide survey of SBP therapists identified preadolescent behaviors in 222 children that ranged from voyeurism to coercion: The more serious offenses involved digital penetration, penile intercourse, anal intercourse, bestiality, and ritualistic or sadistic sexual abuse.
Another 1993 survey conducted in the Northwest revealed that some offenders used physical coercion that included tying up their victims.
Offenders lack compassion, empathy, and exhibit inadequate social skills.
A victim may be the object of revenge or anger and could be viewed as the parents favored child by the perpetrator.
Families frequently attempt to portray themselves to the world as the perfect family.
Co-morbidity: SBP patients have a higher incidence of psychiatric disorders that include, but are not limited to, attachment disorder and separation anxiety.
Revelation of these clinical case studies and the emerging national recognition of this childhood behavioral disorder was in its infancy at the time of JonBenéts death, but confirmed what I had occasionally witnessed in the District Attorneys weekly SART meetings: Children of Burkes age had been proven capable of sexually abusing their siblings and others.
Moreover, these studies confirmed that children of his age were capable of committing horrendous acts of physical violence typically thought to have been reserved to adults.
It had been stated repeatedly that there had been no prior recorded history / incidents of abuse that would have suggested parental involvement in JonBenéts death. As I pointed out in the case analysis report and Power Point outline completed in the fall of 2006, Burke had already exhibited one prior incident of violence against JonBenét.
The incident that involved a blow to the head with a golf club that took place in Michigan was claimed to be an accident by the Ramsey family, but it is interesting to note that this incident took place within a day or two of JonBenéts birthday in August 1994.
One can only wonder whether sibling jealousy or envy may have played any part in that instance, and whether these feelings spilled over into the events of the Christmas holidays in 1996.
I had also found it interesting that the Paughs had reportedly purchased several books on childhood behavior for the Ramsey family. The titles of the books were intriguing:
The Hurried Child Growing Up Too Fast, by David Elkind;
Children at Risk, Dobson / Bruer;
Why Johnny Cant Tell Right From Wrong, Kilpatrick.
When exploring the nature of the content of these three books, I wondered what might have been taking place in the home that prompted the grandparents to purchase these types of childhood behavioral books for the family.
I had reviewed an investigators report that documented a 1997 interview with former Ramsey nanny housekeeper Geraldine Vodicka, who stated that Burke had smeared feces on the walls of a bathroom during his mothers first bout with cancer. She told investigators that Nedra Paugh, who was visiting the Ramsey home at the time, had directed her to clean up the mess.
There were other police reports in the files that documented what I thought could be viewed as related behavior. CSIs had written about finding a pair of pajama bottoms in JonBenéts bedroom that contained fecal material. They were too big for her and were thought to belong to Burke.
Additionally, a box of candy located in her bedroom had also been observed to be smeared with feces. Both of these discoveries had been made during the processing of the crime scene during the execution of search warrants following the discovery of JonBenéts body.
I wondered whether fecal material observed in pajamas thought to belong to Burke, and smeared on the box of candy in his sisters bedroom, could have been related to the symptoms of scatological behavior associated with SBP.
I also contemplated the reasons why a box of JonBenéts candy would have been smeared with human excrement.
As noted previously, Linda Hoffman-Pugh had also mentioned finding fecal material in JonBenéts bed sheets. It raised the question as to who may have been responsible for the deposit of that material in her bed had it been JonBenét or was it Burke?
I readily admit that I am not a trained psychologist psychiatrist, having taken only the most basic of courses during my college studies. But these observations pointed to indicia of some type of behavioral issue that had been taking place in the Ramsey household, and they appeared to have been taking place over some period of time. Incidents like these would not likely have become known to those outside the family, but could have been an underlying reason for the grandparents purchase of the childhood behavioral books discussed previously.
