MISCELLANEOUS SEX OFFENDERS: OFFENDERS VS. NIECES
The six offenders vs. nieces were, at the time of offense, aged twenty-two, thirty-two, thirty-three, forty-five, fifty, and fifty-two. The niece of the eldest male was nearly thirty, but the nieces of the other males ranged from seven to fourteen. While not beyond what is generally considered (erroneously) “middle age,” these males were curiously ravaged by their years.1 In four of the six cases the interviewers felt obliged to comment on the discrepancy between seeming and actual age. The man who was thirty-two at the time of the offense was, at forty, described as “toothless, somewhat deteriorated”; the man of thirty-three (at offense and interview) was labeled “old!” by an interviewer more than a decade his senior; the forty-five-year-old (forty-seven at interview) was similarly called “old”; and the fifty-year-old (fifty-one at interview) was described as “too old—senile.”
This general picture of deterioration is paralleled by their mental status—not one was rated average or above. The youngest was feebleminded and the others were listed variously as “dull,” “low average,” “borderline,” and “inferior.” Like the offenders vs. sisters, these men were below par in sexual response to visual stimuli; four had little or no response.
The combination of young objects, subnormal mentality, and premature senility makes these men similar to the stereotype of the old, deteriorated child-molester. Indeed they fit the public image of the child-molester better than do the offenders vs. children.
Their heterosexual lives are, on the whole, not extraordinary, and all but two (one being the young man) ultimately married. Four had had some homosexual experience: for two it had at one time been of more than incidental significance, and perhaps this was also true of the feeble-minded young man.
As with the offenders vs. sisters, drunkenness was not an important factor, and neither were these men disposed toward additional sex offenses or other criminality. Of the six, only one man had an additional sex offense (one other man was convicted of multiple charges all stemming from one offense involving his niece). Nonsexual criminality was reported in three men: one violated some minor ordinances, another was convicted of loitering and assault and battery, and the third was incarcerated for what appears to have been petty larceny.
All in all, this group is very similar to the offenders vs. sisters: a mentally inferior group seeking sexual gratification, usually without force, from prepubescent or just-pubescent female relatives.
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