Early experiences affect sex offenders

BABIES as young as five months old can have bad experiences that have an influence on the likelihood of them becoming a sexual offender.

Therapists treating sex offenders find many signs of failure to form healthy relationships which goes right back to their earliest experiences in infancy.

The theory has limited use as a warning sign of sexual offending because such “attachment difficulties” are almost as common in other offenders who commit crimes of a non-sexual nature and are also found in people who never commit a crime of any sort.