Why are so many female teachers targeting boys for sexual abuse?
“In the wake of one the most publicized stories of a female teacher sexually abusing an underage student, the case of the beautiful Debra LaFave, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer asked a psychologist TV guest “why someone who looks like a living Barbie Doll would need to have sex with a young kid.” LaFave was 23 years old in 2004 when it was discovered that she had been having sex with her student, a 14-year-old boy. At the time, LaFave became a media sensation for her stunning good looks and the story a woman seeking the sexual attention of a barely adolescent boy that so crossed up society’s expectations of who sex offenders are and what they look like. National statistics, however, demonstrate that LaFave’s case is far from unusual. According to a major 2004 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education the most authoritative investigation to date nearly 10 percent of U.S. public school students have been targeted with unwanted sexual attention by school employees, and in those
