Factors Responsible For Sexual Abuse As Expressed By Students Of Federal College Of Education, Osiele Abeokuta, Nigeria

Denial
    We often trend .to see our own families as free from the trouble and tension that other families have. When you do this, or try to explain away unusual behaviour or pretend it isn’t happening. This is called ‘denial’. In some situations, parents may wish to deny that abuse has taken place because it brings back memories of their own abuse. While denial does not cause sibling sexual abuse, it may contribute to its continuation.
Feeling overwhelmed
    If you feel overwhelmed by your own problem-which can include emotional stress, illness, and unemployment you might not be able to detect the abuse even when it’s happening. At times like this your extended family or a social service agency might not be able to relieve the stress, and gives you a chance to look at what really happening in your family.
Access to Pornography
    Parents who leave pornographic video-tapes or magazines where children can look at, the run risk of having their children imitate adult sexual behaviour. Pornography means the graphic. Sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/or words that also includes one or more of the following: (i) Women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, thing; or commodities or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy humiliation or pain; or (iii) women are presented as sexual assault (iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up, cut up or mutilated or bruised or physical hurt, or (v) women are presented in postures or positions of sexual submission, servility, or display; or (vi) women’s body parts, including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, or buttocks – are exhibited such that woman are reduced to those part or (vii) women are presented being penetrated by objects and animals; or (viii) women are presented in scenarios of degradation, humiliation, injury, torture, show as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised or hurt in a context that male these conditions sexual (Hzin, 1992a) Pornography is not a metaphor for what women are; it is what women are in theory and in practice (Dworkin, 19832).
    According to this argument, Pornography must be viewed as an action that keeps women locked in a various alien compassing system. Dworkin believes pornography presented both the cause and the effect of women’s sexual subordination. So only by abolishing pornography can the liberation of women truly begin.
    Leventhal (1990) noted that in the 1986 United States national yearly apart of child sexual abuse, only 82 percents offenders were male. Leventhal posited that this may be because women who failed to protect their child from sexual abuse were included with those who actually committed sexual abusive acts.
    In a view of the evidence for female sex abusers, Finkethor and Rusell (1984) concluded that females’ abuse is a small proportion of cases; approximately 5 percent of cases with female victims and 20 percent in case involving males. Often women who sexually abuse children do so at the instigation or encouragement of male abusers (Adams – Tucker 1982, as cited by Wurtele and Miller – Perrin, 1993).
    Estimating the true incidence of female abusers is further hampered by the failure of most child abuse statistical reports to provide a gender breakdown of sexual abuse perpetrators. The majorly of such reports classify abusers according to their relationship to the victim – “Parents”, “blood relative”, “family friend” (Angus and Woodward, 1995, Tomison, 1994).
    Irrespective of the difficulty in obtaining a clear picture of the incidence of female abusers research to date has failed to demonstrate that large number of women sexually abuse children (Wurtele and Miller Penin 1993) – with two notable exceptions. Perpetrators of sexual abuse is day care centres, and abusers who form part of a child sex ring or group involved in the ritual or organized sex abuse of children. With regard to the former, women make up the vast proportion of worker who staff day care centers, enhancing the potential to detect women engaging in sexually abusive behaviour independent of male involvement.
    Kelly (1994) reviewed the literature and reported that in three major Untied States Studies, women were identified as perpetrators of sexual abuse cases. In the latter case, Lanning (1991) reported that in an analysis of several hundred “multi –dimensional sex rings” approximately 40 – 50 percent of perpetrators were identified as women. Identification of female abusers may supports an argument that sexual assault occurs as a result of a gender power imbalance, rather than as a result of purely gender-based dominance pattern,