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Jenny (1994) examined records of 352 children seen for sexual abuse
at a Denver hospital during one year. Of these children, 269 (219 girls
and 50 boys) were abused by an adult (the rest were abused by other children
or adolescents or their abuser was unknown). Only two of the 269 children
were molested by a gay adult. 88% of the children were molested by an
adult male in a heterosexual relationship. 77% of the girls and 74%
of the boys were molested by males in heterosexual relationships
with the child's mother or other female relative (child's father or step-father,
mom's boyfriend, mom's brother, etc.).
Jenny, C., Roesler, T. A., & Poyer, K. L. (1994). Are children at
risk for sexual abuse by homosexuals? Pediatrics, 94, 41-44.
A different study (Simon, et al., 1992), which focused on 136 convicted
child molesters, showed that more than 80% of these child molesters
were involved in long-term adult heterosexual relationships.
Simon, L. M. J., Sales, B., Kaszniak, A., and Kahn, M. (1992). Characteristics
of child molesters: Implications for a fixated-regressed dichotomy. Journal
of Interpersonal Violence, 7, 211-225.
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