The majority of victims become the predator, making them the criminal.
Criminal minds had an episode of an escort serial killer. Very realistic, almost like it was based on a true story.
Originally Posted by chellachella
I disagree: the vast majority of victims do NOT become predators, which is a good thing given what is believed to be the actual numbers of sexual-abuse victims, both male & female. However, there is a very strong correlation between predators and childhood physical abuse (although, very interestingly, not necessarily sexual abuse; sexual predators in prison were reporting childhood sexual abuse when it hadn't occurred, as part of what is believed to be a normal pattern of minimization & denial, but in other surveys for non-prison populations where positive responses for predatory behavior were followed-up there is not a large correlation between predation & sexual violence when young, but a substantial correlation w/broader physical domestic violence). In a fair number of cases of predators however, there is no abusive environment at all: they're just sociopaths. Fortunately that segment of the population is VERY small, given that they tend to have a LOT of victims, whether they are sexual predators or serial-killers. Avg. number of victims of a sexual predator prior to being identified & possibly charged is six.
Avg. number of deaths by individual serial killer? I don't know that there is any good data, one reason being some researchers exclude as serial-killers those who kill for hire or financial gain, like "black widows" etc.; OTOH, to me, that's certainly socio-pathic behavior if I ever read a definition of it: "I wanted something, I needed to kill someone to get it, so I killed him/her." (Vietnamese business-owner Ha "Jade" Smith & her daughter Anit Nhi Vo killed in California by a woman from NC who assumed her ID for financial gain; as far as anyone knows, she only killed once although she conspired w/another person & both the business owner & her daughter were killed at the same time, so would be excluded from most tracking of a serial killer; yet killers who do that more than once? I'd say include them. However, some researchers don't).
Research still cannot explain why a small number of those who've been abused become themselves predators, but a much larger number of victims do not: "hardwiring" or genetic predisposition, other environmental factors researchers haven't been able to identify, etc. In this case, she could be telling the truth, she could be minimizing; no way to really tell.
The "based on a true story" might have been Aileen Wuornos, executed by FL in 2002 for killing 6 customers (believed to have killed a 7th whose body was never found) when she worked as a streetwalker. In her case, made into the movie "Monster," she alleged sexual abuse by her grandfather. Although according to Wikipedia she never met her biological father, incarcerated when she was born, he was later convicted of child-sex offenses--he was also schizophrenic. My own take-away from "Monster" was that she was a petty criminal, not very bright, had real psychological issues regardless of their cause, and was terribly lonely--which made her a perfect victim for her younger girlfriend Tyria Moore (whom I thought was the real monster in the movie--highly manipulative young spoiled girl who sold her ex-girlfriend Wuornos out for total immunity; Moore never did a day yet her demands & manipulation of Wuornos undoubtedly caused some of the murders, IF the film is accurate). What it also did was make me want to see the documentaries which were done about Wuornos--but I haven't watched them yet.
The other cause for concern here is the "Satanic Cult" nonsense that she's stating: every time they've run these things to ground, they find there IS no Satanic Cult (or does NO ONE remember the Satanic Cult nonsense from NC & TX in the early '90s? Allegations of "hundreds" of murders, physical abuse, ritual sexual abuse of children--and all of it was total BS; it sucks, b/c it distracts attention from the real, and much greater if more mundane, problems of everyday middle-America sexual & domestic abuse as a more general problem).
Given how inaccurate first news reports are, if I were to bet lunch someplace good in NOLA, by the time of trial, the information will have changed substantially for whatever reasons--not necessarily nefarious. Look at every big news story, go back to it, and the facts in the first reports are so often incorrect.