Janice Aitken

Artist, feminist, human rights, lefty, anti war, sense of humour

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

This really should have the Benny Hill music on it

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ICE chasing a chair in Minneapolis?😂

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

@dave43law @DailyMail ‘First signs’? 😂

[21group @21percentgroup]

Article is masterclass in institutional gaslighting dressed up as care

You can’t coach your way out of austerity

You can’t reflect your way out of redundancy

You can’t heal structural violence with kindness workshops

https://t.co/16uNx6B4Jm

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Is anyone going to ask where did Israel get the 2000 Kidneys from?

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

I knew it!

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

this is so funny because everyone was like “this thing is listening” and it turned out it was listening

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

@PeterStefanovi2 @NatashaC But it’s fair that people who work hard, get into debt and gain the knowledge to make society better should do so for the good of those who don’t? Honestly, the devaluing of education’s good to humanity is a disgrace. Reeves is a fool.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

🚨 In the US and UK, straight white men are over-represented in child sex abuse convictions. If you're a real 'truth-seeker', or you genuinely want to 'protect our children', reflect on why right-wing politicians and billionaire-owned media conceal or misrepresent this fact.

Myths about those who sexually abuse children (e.g., "stranger danger," or disproportionate focus on LGBTQ/socially awkward loners) misdirect attention and resources away from the real risk profile: familiar, trusted adults, particularly straight white (in the US, Christian) men in family settings, who exploit proximity and power dynamics.

This 2025 article by R.L. Stollar compiles data from various studies and sources to describe the profile of the typical or "average" child sexual abuser in the United States.

The article emphasises that this profile closely resembles the average American male in many outward ways: often married, employed, educated, Christian, and integrated into family/community life, rather than fitting stereotypes like strangers, queer individuals, or marginalised groups.

In US, UK, European and Australian far-right online spaces, misleading conspiratorial narratives about “groomers”, migrants, “rape gangs” and “degeneracy” are already normalised, and are now being shamelessly normalized by senior right-wing populist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.

A bit of historical context: from the late 1970s onward, UK media coverage of child sexual abuse, particularly in tabloids such as Rupert Murdoch's The News of the World and Jonathan Harmsworth's Daily Mail, increasingly framed the paedophile as a monstrous, externalised threat.

Sensationalist reporting, tabloid naming-and-shaming campaigns, and “stranger danger” narratives produced an emotionally compelling caricature: predatory outsiders lurking in public spaces, often tied to broader anxieties about permissiveness and moral decline (and more recently to immigration). Yet this portrayal was empirically misleading.

Decades of research, including NSPCC studies and data from the ONS’s Crime Survey for England and Wales show that the vast majority of child sexual abuse (around 89-90% of contact cases) is perpetrated by people known to the victim: family members, caregivers, or trusted figures.

Stranger-perpetrated contact abuse accounts for a small minority, typically estimated at 7-15%, and often less, depending on methodology.

Moral panic analysis does not deny the reality or gravity of child sexual abuse. Rather, it helps explain how distorted representations can undermine effective prevention by focusing public fear on a symbolic “other”, while obscuring the more common, uncomfortable realities of abuse within families and institutions.

What US and UK citizens rarely hear from (particularly right-wing) politicians or news media is the fact that straight white men are over-represented in child sex abuse convictions.

In the US, this is particularly the case in federal cases involving child pornography (CSAM) production, receipt, possession, or related sexual abuse offenses, where they typically comprise 57–75% (often around 67–70% in recent US Sentencing Commission data for production and related categories), compared to their roughly 56–58% share of the adult (or adult male) population—indicating an overrepresentation of about 15–30% relative to population proportions.

Key characteristics of the typical US child sexual predator (based on the article's synthesis of reliable data):

1. Gender:

Overwhelmingly male (around 94% per 2021 US Sentencing Commission data; consistent with broader sources showing 90-93%+ male perpetrators in sexual abuse cases).

2. Marital status:

More likely to be married or formerly married (77%), slightly higher than the general U.S. male population.

3. Race/ethnicity:

Majority white (58% overall; up to 75% in child sexual abuse material production cases).

4. Sexual orientation:

Predominantly heterosexual (at least 90% identify as such; risk from heterosexual partners far exceeds that from gay/lesbian/bisexual individuals in relative terms).

5. Religious affiliation:

Highly religious. The majority of known child sexual abusers in US studies and reports (93% according to the widely referenced Abel and Harlow findings) come from religious backgrounds that predominantly reflect Christian demographics, with offenders often actively participating in churches or faith communities, rather than being disproportionately irreligious or from non-Christian faiths.

6. Relationship to victim:

Almost always someone known to the child and family (90%+ of cases); frequently a parent, stepparent, relative, family friend, or authority figure. Only about 10% involve strangers. In child sexual abuse material production, biological fathers (58%) or stepfathers (41%) are common perpetrators.

7. Employment and education:

As likely to be employed and educated as the general population.

8. Victim patterns:

More commonly abuses girls, but the most prolific offenders abuse both boys and girls (higher victim counts and acts when targeting both genders). Many are parents or in parental roles.

9. Other traits:

Often outwardly "normal" e.g., church-going husbands/fathers who leverage positions of trust and authority in families, churches, and communities to access and groom victims.

The article stresses that while anyone can abuse, the data shows the most common perpetrators are NOT from stereotyped "outsider" groups which grab a vastly disproportionate amount of news coverage and discussion in political/online speech.

This aligns with broader U.S. data trends (e.g., from RAINN, DOJ, and other sources), which consistently show most child sexual abuse is intrafamilial/acquaintance-based, perpetrated by known males who blend into everyday society.

So what about the UK?

It's a similar story: based on the best available official and analysed data for England and Wales (which covers the bulk of UK statistics), white men are over-represented in child sexual abuse convictions relative to their share of the adult (or adult male) population.

Again, UK citizens rarely hear from (particularly right-wing) politicians or print and broadcast news media the fact that white men are over-represented in UK child sex abuse convictions.

Recent sources (including Ministry of Justice data referenced in reports from the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, academic analyses, and secondary summaries up to 2025) indicate that white offenders typically comprise around 85–90% of those convicted or prosecuted for child sexual abuse offences (e.g., ~88% of defendants in 2022 per MoJ/ONS-linked figures; ~90% of recorded ethnicity cases in a 2025 CSA Centre report; ~85% white in 2024 NPCC data for group-based cases).

The white population in England and Wales is approximately 81.7% (2021 Census), with the white share among adults/males being very similar (slightly lower in some recent estimates due to demographic shifts, but still ~80–82%).

This results in a moderate overrepresentation of roughly 5–10% relative (e.g., 88% offenders vs. ~82% population ≈ 1.07 times expected, or ~7% over), though some analyses describe it as "disproportionately over-represented" when compared directly to census figures.

However, concerning the UK, there are some important caveats:

1. Data limitations persist (e.g., ethnicity not always recorded, underreporting of abuse, differences in detection/prosecution by offence type).

2. Overrepresentation is more pronounced in certain subtypes, such as online/image-based offences (e.g., child sexual abuse material), where white offenders dominate convictions (possibly due to greater access to technology or detection patterns) while group-based "grooming" or street exploitation cases show higher Asian (particularly Pakistani heritage) representation in specific locales/high-profile convictions, although nationally these form a small minority of total CSAE cases (~3–5% in some datasets like 2024 NPCC for group-based).

3. Overall child sexual abuse (including lone/family/institutional) aligns more closely with population demographics when adjusted, but white men remain the majority and show slight-to-moderate per capita elevation in conviction data.

4. High-profile media focus on "Asian/Pakistani Heritage grooming gangs" has skewed public perception, but broader evidence (e.g., Home Office 2020 review, NPCC, IICSA-linked findings) consistently shows most perpetrators (and thus convictions) are white, mirroring or slightly exceeding population proportions rather than minority groups being overrepresented nationally.

This pattern parallels some US trends (e.g., overrepresentation in certain federal/online cases), though UK demographics differ (higher white baseline population share).

Exact per capita rates aren't uniformly published due to data gaps, but the consensus from MoJ, CSA Centre, and independent reviews is that white offenders are not underrepresented and often slightly exceed expected proportions in convictions.

In short, in Britain and America, good evidence strongly suggests that the real risk profile of those most likely to sexually abuse children is typically a familiar, trusted, straight white male adult, who opportunistically exploits proximity and power dynamics.

You will NEVER hear that from Reform UK or Tory politicians, and you're extremely unlikely to read or hear that in the billionaire-owned right-wing print and broadcast media.

You should explore why that is, and consider what else they tell you may also be distorted and misleading.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them

So ask yourself...

Why the concern for women only when the perpetrator is a migrant?

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

For everyone gleeful that Trump might be dying, don’t forget that Vance will take over the regime. The US is far from out of the woods if Trump goes. They need a reset of their democracy

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

It's bizarre that few people have realised that the GOP is using Trump to try to get elected so they can get rid of him and let that weird psycho Vance take over. They know that #TrumpIsNotWell . He's too egotistical and stupid to realise he's being used and will be disposed of.

[Mr AntifaBot - AKA The Intolerant Left @_Wrevolution_]

Hello, a woman here 👋

I would just like to say I would rather stand in a room full of immigrants

Than stand in a room with one single Reform UK MP

I'd feel safer

That is all

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

@21percentgroup In our university they’re promoting wellbeing sessions. Maybe instead of that waste of time they could try employing enough staff so we’re not all burnt out!

[21group @21percentgroup]

Voice of Victim

"At my university, we're all drowning in work. Burnout isn’t looming, it’s already here

In response, Human Resources have arranged free yoga classes

To help with stress, they say

We’re so overwhelmed we don’t have any time to go

No one does

Except HR 😉"

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

@Glory2G_d @Keir_Starmer Including the thousands of innocent Palestinians being held by Israel?

[Janice Aitken @jaypea_aitken]

@Keir_Starmer How dare you? You should be tried in The Hague for your complicity in the genocide Hypocritical scum!

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Zoe Gardner, who could face 14 years for her support, smashes Luciana Berger’s codswallop that vandalism is anywhere near close to terrorism

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Israel is carrying out a GENOCIDE in plain sight

How can Israel be trusted with nuclear weapons?

How can it be allowed to refuse IAEA inspections?

[David Challen @David_Challen]

We say three women a week are killed by men.

But when you include suicide driven by abuse, the real number could be as high as ten.

For those who’ve read #TheUnthinkable, you’ll know this could have been my mother’s story.

And still, it’s not treated as the crisis it is.