‘Women can be paedophiles just as easily as men’

WOMEN can be paedophiles just as easily as men and society must accept this, according to research being presented in Killarney today.

Sharon Lambert from University College Cork is part of a team presenting its work to Psychological Society of Ireland’s annual four-day conference.

She said women often offended in similar ways to men but their crimes were treated differently and society’s attitudes stopped them from coming to the attention of the authorities.