Hayley Caronia

So studies show that authorities have a more difficult time identifying female predators.

They don't obviously fit the male stereotypes of pedophiles, so they're harder to nail down.

They end up getting away with this kind of criminal behavior because nobody suspects them.

Another layer to this is what I mentioned before.

Male and female victims of female pedophiles are less likely to speak up.

Either they don't see it as sexual abuse.

If a woman is touching you, it might be seen as maternal abuse.

Or especially in the case of a male victim, they're afraid of the stigma.

They're afraid to admit that they were overpowered or duped by a woman or abused by a woman.

And we see this because if a boy tells a friend or even another male adult that he's being sexually abused by a woman, they may tell him, oh, you're lucky.

You know, suck it up.

That's a fantasy.

I wish that would have happened to me.

And they would tell him that that's not abuse at all.

But that's a huge double standard where female victims are always seen as the victim.

Male victims are not taken as seriously.

Therefore, female pedophiles aren't taken as seriously either.

And when it comes to law enforcement, in some cases, they're not even trained on female on male pedophiles.

Sexual violence.

There was a study done on Canadian police and they found that the concept of males being I'm sorry, females of being sexual predators wasn't even discussed in their training.