Where's
your link for that?
Kids do a lot of brutal things to each other. Kids lie, fight, bully, cover up, rape, and kill.
Here's
MY links to back that up:
The Unthinkable: Children who kill -
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/kids2/index_1.html
"Jesse Pomeroy was
fourteen when he was arrested in 1874 for the sadistic murder of a
four-year-old boy. His rampage had begun
three years earlier with the sexual torture of seven other boys".
"Mary Flora Bell wanted to hurt someone. When Mary was
eleven, she and Nora lured a boy to the top of an air raid shelter. Two weeks later, the corpse of
four-year-old Martin Brown was found, another assumed accident. He'd been strangled and his legs and stomach had been cut with a razor and scissors. They went to trial in 1968 in England, where Mary was convicted of two counts of manslaughter."
"Willie Bosket had committed over two thousand crimes in New York by the time he was
fifteen, including stabbing several people".
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Child on Child Sexual Abuse -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child-on-child_sexual_abuse
"The incidence of child-on-child sexual abuse
is not known with any certainty, similar to abuse by adults. It frequently goes unreported because it is not widely known of in the public, and often occurs outside of adults' supervision. Even if known by adults, it is sometimes dismissed as harmless by those who do not understand the implications. In particular, intersibling abuse is under-reported relative to the reporting rates for parent-child sexual abuse, and disclosure of the incest by the victim during childhood is rare....."
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Do Children Sexually Abuse Other Children?
http://www.stopitnow.org/files/Do_Children_Sexually_Abuse_Other_Children.pdf
"Most people already are aware of the risk of sexual abuse that some adults present to our children. There is growing understanding that the vast majority of children who are sexually abused, are abused by someone they know, and often trust.
Unfortunately, very few adults recognize that children and adolescents also can present a risk to other children.
In fact, over a third of all sexual abuse of children is committed by someone under the age of 18".
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"Understanding Sexual Behaviors of Children"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dfs/childrenyouth/sexualbehaviorchildren.htm
Preadolescence (ages 9-12) -
• Interest in sex increases and children may begin to experiment with sexual behaviors with other children.
• Puberty can begin as early as age nine; with the onset of puberty, boys are able to ejaculate and have “wet dreams.”
• “Locker room behavior” is quite common, including comparing genital size and function.
• Older children in this age range may begin to experiment with “petting” over and under clothes, French kissing, and touching or rubbing each other’s bodies.
• Masturbation may be a preferred pastime, although most children feel embarrassed and deny masturbating.
• Children may simulate intercourse (dry humping).
• Sexual intercourse is still uncommon at this age, although it is beginning to occur with greater frequency in today’s culture.
Early school-age (ages 5-9) -
• Children have more contact with peers and may touch each other through activities such as tickling and wrestling.
• Children may like to touch themselves in a less random way and more frequently; they have learned not to touch their genitals in public.
• Dirty jokes are common among children, but they may not be fully understood.
• Children begin to talk about sexual touching and sexual behaviors with their friends.
• Children begin to experience feelings of sexual arousal when masturbating and may want to produce that feeling again.
•Children ask questions such as, “Where did I come from?”
• Children are more inhibited and need privacy.
• Children may hold hands or kiss.
• Children become more aware of sexual preferences
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Child Sex Offenders -
http://www.child-abuse-effects.com/child-sex-offenders.html
In an American Justice Department Survey of 60,991 victims,
child sex offenders aged 7-11 years of age were responsible for 3.6% of all sexual assaults committed (Snyder, 2000, p. 84).
72% of child sex offenders who began molesting between 4-6 years of age had documented histories of sexual abuse, whereas 42% of children 7-10 years of age and 35% of children 11-12 years had documented histories of sexual abuse (Cavanagh Johnson, 1993, p. 74; Araji, 19975).
Among adults convicted of sex crimes, 30% began offending before they were 9 years old (Cantwell, 1995, p. 917).
Child sex offenders are immature and tend to act impulsively. Many find it hard to make friends, have poor self-esteem and view themselves as social outcasts (Gil, 19958). "Child sex offenders" provides an interesting article by Judith Levine on children who molest other children.
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A Question of Abuse -
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/07/question-abuse
"...Three years ago, in November 1993, San Diego County Child Protective Services pronounced Tony a grave danger to his sister. Jessie had told someone at school that her brother had "touched her private parts, front and back." Mandated by the 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to report any suspicion of child abuse, even by a child and even without substantiation, Jessica's elementary school called the Child Abuse Hotline.
A social worker elicited a record of Tony's earlier offenses: In elementary school, he used sexual language and looked under girls' skirts; at 4, he lay on top of Jessie in the bath....
San Diego Juvenile Court charged Tony with "sexual abuse" of Jessica "including, but not limited to, touching her vaginal and anal areas...placing a pencil in her buttocks," and threatening to hurt her if she "disclosed the molest."
"It would appear from a review of the case," the social worker wrote, "
that Tony is a budding sex offender."
Tony was 9 years old.
"....Today, the Vermont-based Safer Society Foundation database lists
50 residential and 396 nonresidential programs that treat "sex offenders" under 12. And at the 1995 Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers conference, about 80 percent of the exhibition tables featured literature on such programs for children and adolescents".
"....
[Adult] offenders will tell you they started out young, maybe masturbating in public," says Bill Southwell, co-chair of a countywide task force on juvenile sex offenders."
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...In fact, I would say that Burke had the easiest access to JonBenet, being that they often slept in his bed together, he was the older brother who could coax and manipulate, experiment and play with her, and he was stronger than her, and could easily threaten her and say 'You better not tell!'. There's also interview testimony regarding housekeeper saying that she walked in on Burke and JonBenet under the covers doing something one time and they yelled at her to go away....
