Youths sexually abused in juvenile prisons - the vast majority of cases involve female staff and boys under their supervision.

apparently the shortage of catholic priest chaplains is now showing in the stats.

The male on male rape has to be under-reported.

Right, let's look at the people involved. Juvenile delinquents usually come from broken homes where they were abused. So, yea, let's just not believe their word and just let them get abused some more. Every jail system in Kentucky last year had at least one instance of inmate abuse.

I'm a teenager and I know the kinds of guys who are in juvie. The fact that these scientists believe them is one big epic fail of the justice system. The kids don't like the guards so they claim to have been abused. Stop believing kids in juvie. They're dicks. It probably does happen too much, but you have to look at the people involved.

this doesn't surprise me, what pisses me off is that there is not a federal investigation to put these dirtball female c/o child molesters in prison themselves.

The other thing that really makes me sad about this whole article is that just like when catholic priests were making the news for molesting young boys--these boys will get all kinds of attention and "head's will roll" and restitution will be set up for the victims--(which I don't have a problem with)--but once again the real problem will be ignored which is money is nice and media attention is nice but it does nothing to truly hold the perpetrators accountable.

And yet again the true unreported victims of sexual abuse --girls and young women who are molested by male members of their family or a family "friend" will be ignored and their abusers will not be brought to justice because 1.) plain old boring old heterosexual men "hanging around with" young girls is not shocking or interesting or newsworthy (but it makes for great television--i.e. Girls next door--where 80+ year old Hugh runs around with his twin girlfriends who are barely out of their teens) and 2.) girls of every culture, socio-economic class, and religion are taught that part of being female is to just accept that at some point men and/or boys will make sexually suggestive comments or be sexually aggressive towards you and its not really worth the hassle to complain about it.(because the stripper pole in the bedroom is just so you an exercise honey--and posting your bra color on your facebook status is a fun way to raise awareness of breast cancer--but if men suddenly posted boxers or briefs in their status box to raise awareness of testicular cancer it would be offensive or obscene) Seriously even when all these stories bring up memories of abuse for girls and women they will be told "oh well--go find a counselor" or "so what did you do to deserve the abuse?" or "why are you suddenly wanting to talk about this now?"

"The incredibly high rates of staff misconduct is shocking and disturbing," McFarlane said. "We just need to do a better job with training and recruitment and hiring and supervision."

WTF? Seriously?

Because yeah--we can tell registered sex offenders they have to stay inside on Halloween with their doors closed and their lights off because they might maybe attack or molest a child--and we take kids out of the home on a regular basis because their parents are deemed "unfit" --but when these so - called "guards" sexually abuse the children in their care suddenly its oh how shocking--we need to do a better job of training and supervising these people. It's like no you dumbass--you need to fire all these idiots and prosecute them for child abuse and make them register as sex offenders.

That and if this person has worked more than a week in the social service field they would know that almost every state has implemented a hiring freeze on social workers who want to go into child protective or juvenile protection because funding for programs like child protective, temporary assistance to needy families, juvenile detention programs, foster care programs, and public schools--are always, always, always, always the first things to be cut by the state (and federal) budget even in a time of surplus.

Nice post, it is not often that female to boy sexual abuse makes the news. It is as common as the other type but under reported by the media and the victims.

About 70 kids out of 1000. That is a lot considering how many detention centers there are across the states. I am sure that this is having an underlying bad affect on our hole society. These scars almost never heal.

I believe the first step towards the solution is to identify the problem.

The interesting phenomenon this article raises awareness of female prison staff sexually abusing boys under their supervision. Historically media coverage of sex crimes made the public believe that only men are perpetrators and females are victims. The truth is that both males and females are capable of abuse and sex crimes against minors.

My guess is that the data and percentages are probably higher than that, but the youths don't report due to fear of consequences they'd have to face. The real question is how to treat the problem. True, more in depth screenings of employing juvenile prison staff can help, but they can only go so far. There is also the case of where the prison system gets so tight that guards aren't allowed to do anything effective due to fear of abusement reportings by the youths themselves. In my opinion, the prison system of the U.S. is in great need of repair. It's just that there is one question. How?