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It would make a lot of sense, but don't you think, if that was the case, they had to abduct necessarily rather a little girl?
No. That is a fallacy.
There is a lot of recent research that says that many sex offenders have a 'crossover tendency' with regards to young children. Included in these research results are Canadian stats of 25% of child sex offenders abusing both male and female children, as well as stats for 'enjoyment' (their words are more explicit and the result was scientifically derived) of viewing both male and female children.
It makes sense that FACS would have removed Spedding's young step-grandsons from his home even though he was charged with abusing young girls.
Gender crossover among sex offenders appears to be a not uncommon phenomenon.
- A study of 678 Canadian sex offenders found that about 25% of them had abused children of both genders.
- A survey that promised anonymity and immunity to sex offenders to encourage disclosure revealed that 23% of child molesters who were convicted for molesting girls had also abused boys
- More recent studies that used polygraph examination to verify sexual histories discovered that between 29% and 40% of sex offenders had victimized children of both genders
- In a study investigating the process of risk assessment, however, evaluators seemed to perceive abusers of very young children as more dangerous
https://www.researchgate.net/public..._Age_and_Gender_Crossover_Among_Sex_Offenders
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