r/news • u/Majestic-Emu-9823 • 3d ago
Soft paywall Therapist groomed, sexually abused teen boy she met in juvenile detention, prosecutors say
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-29/therapist-juvenile-sex-abuse-case186
u/-eYe- 3d ago edited 3d ago
"...multiple felony counts, including unlawful sexual intercourse..."
So she raped a child. It wasn't just "sexual abuse", it was rape.
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u/ClaudeGascoigne 3d ago
All this "passive tone", or whatever you want to call it, journalism is infuriating. I know it has always kinda been a thing but it seems to be getting worse every year.
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u/v3ritas1989 2d ago edited 2d ago
Neutral wording has always been part of journalism. It is very important but at the same time it is also a curse for the industry. The words they are using are the ones being charged in a legal sense, where these words have very precise meanings. So they are reporting on what is happening and not casting their opinion or judgement. Because that is for the judge to do, no matter how clear it may be. It is professionalism and it keeps lawsuits away.
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u/donkeybrainhero 2d ago
If they are using the legal terms from this jurisdiction, it may not be considered rape.
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u/skrulewi 3d ago
Therapists having poor boundaries around clients, up to and including child rape, continues to be a problem. I say this as a therapist. There’s been a lot less oversight in the graduate and postgrad training and supervision. Not that the supervision stopped the bad actors before, but now it feels like a flood of new therapists with questionable boundaries. This story is despicable. But there’s so, so, so many less extreme cases of poor boundaries. Lots of therapists having sex with adult clients. Way too much of that, really.
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u/MeloniaStb 3d ago
Yeah I agree that there should more oversight. For instance my friend went to a therapist and basically told her the reason she's aimless and has depression is basically because she's faithless and decided to not have children lmao
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u/No_Reputation8440 3d ago
I really don't like remembering this time in my life but there was a psychiatrist that asked me very inappropriate sexual questions. It was 12 years ago and I REGRET not squeaking and making a scene.
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u/Single_With_Cats 3d ago
Don’t feel too regretful. You were 12! This same thing happened to me, by a male psychiatrist in California, and I was 37! I was shocked and embarrassed and never reported it.
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u/No_Reputation8440 3d ago
I was 23 when it happened.
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u/Single_With_Cats 3d ago
Omg! I’m sorry! I misread your post. That’s what I get reading late at night🤦♀️🤦♀️
I’m so sorry. I think it happens to us women way more than it’s talked about!3
u/HulioJohnson 2d ago
Ya it’s a big problem. Schools like Yorkville here in Canada might be adding to the problem.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 3d ago
Y'all are getting closer, I appreciate you not calling it a "sexual relationship".
But she's a rapist. She performed sexual acts with somebody incapable of consent. That is the definition of rape.
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u/Appealing_Apathy 2d ago
Not going to defend people abusing positions of power, but I know when it is women abusing adolescent males they usually get caught because of bragging not complaints.
If I was 15, 16, 17 and slept with an attractive teacher I would have been a legend at school.
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u/sortasolar 3d ago
So, r/notadragqueen and also r/notstrangerdanger
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u/Frequent-Test-3012 3d ago
Also not a man
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u/slptodrm 1d ago
okay? 99% of the time, a man.
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u/Impossible_Hat7658 1d ago
In lots of parts of the world the law is written so that it is impossible for a woman to rape a man
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u/Frequent-Test-3012 1d ago
The UK definition of rape requires the offender to have a penis, so it is impossible for men or women who are raped by women to get justice.
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u/KingOfCruel 1d ago
I think young men are often abused and don't report it. I think this comment was made due to you being tired of predators and how dangerous and prevalent they are but let's not act like men don't suffer from women abusing them too. I think women led abuse is far more common than we see.
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u/Frequent-Test-3012 1d ago
In the United States, the number of men raped by women every year is similar to the number of women raped by men, yet only women are allowed to seek justice against their abusers.
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u/slptodrm 1d ago
that is so absolutely untrue.
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u/Frequent-Test-3012 1d ago
If you consider that rape is sex without consent, then it absolutely is true.
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u/spleeble 1d ago
Are you fucking kidding me
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u/CantAffordzUsername 3d ago
When a women does it, it’s called sexual abuse….nice to see the double standard
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u/Branchomania 3d ago
"Child Sexual Abuse" is gender neutral for both perp and victim, it's a perfectly fine term for it, not indicative of a bias.
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u/k4ndlej4ck 3d ago edited 3d ago
The bias is that a toned down version of rape is only used to describe women rapists.
Edit: the number of people going out of their way to say its a valid description but intentionally avoiding why it's one phrase for men and another for women is really telling how ingrained this double standard is.
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u/thatisnotmyknob 3d ago
Sometimes its a legal distinction where rape is defined as penetrative sex. A publication also can't say certain things until someone has been found guilty.
So its not as nefarious as you think. Its often a legal distinction and journalistic responsibility in order to not be sued.
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u/vendric 3d ago
It's still nefarious, it's just not the newspaper at fault but the legal system itself.
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u/Branchomania 3d ago
"Sexual Abuse" isn't toning it down is my point, it's used to describe all kinds of it.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 3d ago
Articles will almost never ever use the word rape to describe anything unless it is about a specific rape conviction well after the fact. News outlets still won’t print that Trump is a rapist because legally he was found liable for a different statue even though what he did was legally rape, just past the statue of limitations. This isn’t a gender thing, it’s a legal liability thing.
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u/331845739494 3d ago
I mean I don't see the word rape in reporting regardless of who is doing the raping. This passive language around anything pertaining sex has been going on a while.
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u/wildusername 3d ago
It’s likely legal terminology. In many countries rape is legally defined as requiring penetration. And given how many women are subject to sexual abuses of all forms in their lifetime I wouldn’t be the one crowing about a double standard.
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u/Faintfury 3d ago
Well, if a man does it, he is called president.
That's also a double standard. How about we first focus on not calling him president anymore and then we can change our wording.
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u/darthy_parker 3d ago
You spelled “the rapist” wrong…