Impact of Sexual Abuse on Students
Whatever justification or rationalization a teacher claims,
the hurt, the harm, and the devastation to the child is the same.
Male or Female Victims. Sexual abuse of a child is the same whether the offender or victim is a male or female. The impact on boys is just as harmful and serious as it is on girls, because both will have lifetime issues.
We need to correct the wrongful thinking that boys have not been harmed. It is against the law, and morally indefensible. Teachers who have abused boys put them in high-risk situations and at high-risk for emotional difficulty, including suicide. Sexually victimized boys experience later difficulty in developing age-appropriate relationships and gravitate toward pornography and one-night stands.
If boys do not receive counseling, when they age into sexual maturity they will realize that this experience was not pleasurable and it was simply sexual abuse. At that point society must deal with the resulting problems including depression, crime, suicide, drug addiction and more sexual abuse. Studies have shown that 33% of juvenile delinquents, 40% of sexual offenders, and 76% of serial rapists report they were sexually abused as youngsters.
When male or female sexually-abused children reach sexual maturity and adulthood, they will suffer from issues such as depression, and loss of self-esteem. The damage is caused by the exploitation, the abuse of power, and the abuse of trust from a teacher or other adult in a position of authority using and exploiting either a male or a female. These victims will then lose trust in adults and authority figures.
Victims are often labeled liars by both classmates and sometimes by staff. They may also be blamed for “bringing down” popular educators. Ironically, the characteristics that make a good teacher are the same characteristics that make educators successful in getting close enough to kids to abuse them.
...the women in there will take care of "her problem".