The Sexual Abuse of Boys
by Tony Sandel

[Note: This is the original article that Tony Sandel posted on Wikipedia in July of 2006. The Wikipedia article has been altered many times since then and is now titled Pedophilia and Sexual abuse in fiction. Books have been added, text removed, and the focus of the article changed and rechanged, which is the nature of Wikipedia articles.

I am posting this version because in it Tony catagorizes and briefly describes a wide range of literature in which child sexual abuse/pedophilia is portrayed.

Many of these books are written for adults. Tony has not indicated whether a book is written for teens, children or adults. He does describe the type of abuse and some of the circumstances in the stories and autobiographies. Many of the following books are written for adult readers. Their mention here does not constitute a recommendation. This article is a broad survey. CL]

This article concentrates on the way pedophilia and the sexual abuse of boys by adult males is described in literature, with a particular emphasis on fictional works. A detailed list of works is included followed by lists of works that cover the abuse of boys by women and the abuse of girls by men. There are also lists of films that include pedophile themes and/or child sexual abuse. The lists are divided into two categories, one covering the abuse of boys and the other of girls.

The following description of pedophile activity and child sexual abuse in literature relates to the novels and autobiographies/biographies listed. It is not intended to suggest that the abuse describes in literature mirrors the frequency or typical characteristics of real life abuse. We should note that many of the books refer to times when individual behavior, social customs, society’s view of abuse and the legal position on criminality were quite different than today. The bibliography includes works written in languages other than English if English language translations are readily available.

The Non-Abusive pedophiles

Much of the literature describes criminal activity, though pedophilia (the condition of being sexually attracted to young children) is not necessarily a crime. There are examples of pedophiles how are attracted to boys, but who never abuse and there are examples of men who fall in love or become obsessed with one specific boy, but again do not abuse him.

Gustav von Aschenbach in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice is obsessed with the young Tadzio and a sexual attraction is implied though never described. Von Aschenbach never even speaks to the boy though their eyes meet. T.C. Worsley describes his fascination with a series of beautiful boys in Flannelled Fool, but never abuses any of them. He writes that he had no physical designs on any of the boys, even those whom he was to fall in love with. Les amitiés particulières (Secret Friendships) deals with an intense, nonsexual, relationship between two French schoolboys and how this is destroyed. Father Lauzon, who is secretly also in love with the younger boy Alexander Motier, learns about his relationship with the older boy Georges de Sarre. Another priest, Father de Trennes, has groups of boys in his room after dark, but even though Georges gets him removed, there is never any proof of any abuse. Red Rover in The Moralist mentors 12-year-old Jonathan and falls in love with him. He does not abuse the boy and describes how Jonathan’s family reacts to his relationship with their son.

Innocent Men Accused of being Pedophiles

Justin McLeod in The Man Without a Face has a questionable past, but was jailed for killing a boy in a road accident, not for abusing him. He spends many hours with Chuck, a troubled boy, but there is only a hint in one paragraph that he may have touched him inappropriately when he was upstairs in his bedroom. He is, nevertheless hounded out of town. Mr. Forster in What Happened to Mr. Forster? is also made to resign and leave town by hysterical parents. A known homosexual, Mr. Forster befriends 12-year-old Louis Lamb, but doesn’t do anything inappropriate with the boy.

Jeremy in Avoidance becomes infatuated with Max, a 14-year-old at summer camp. When Max confides in him that he has been molested by the camp director, Jeremy realizes just how close he came to actually committing the same crime. In An Honorable Profession, a boy at a High School in Boston who has been sodomized by a group of older students develops a crush on Miles Bannon, a popular English teacher. Miles fails to discourage it and this triggers bitter accusations of child molestation when the boy commits suicide.

The Abusers

Many abusers are in positions of authority and abuse the trust that the children and their parents expect:

Parents and Family

Cameron Miller in Counterfeit Son is aged 14. He has been sexually abused all his life by his father, a serial killer of young boys. Nathan in Dream Boy is abused by his drunken father, and it is clear that his mother knows, but does nothing. Marnus in The Smell of Apples is devastated when he discovers that his Dad is abusing his best friend Frikkie. He spies his Dad sodomizing Frikkie in the spare bedroom in the family home. 11-year-old Blacky Brown in Little Chicago is abused by his single mother's boyfriend. Jamie in Jumping the Scratch is abused by a caretaker at the trailer park where he lives.

Priests and Others in the Church

In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, an adolescent boy is sent to live with a 35-year-old priest, who becomes his teacher and spiritual mentor, but also abuses him physically and sexually. In Altar Boy: A Story of Life After Abuse, Andrew Madden is molested by a priest, Father Ivan Payne. Martin O’Boy in Boy O'Boy is mentored by a church organist who then abuses him. Gabriel in A Son Called Gabriel is abused at school by a priest, Father Cornelius. The abuser in Father of Lies is a lay provost from the Mormon church. Andrew Greeley's The Priestly Sins: A Novel and Fall from Grace describe abuse in the Catholic Church.

School Teachers in England

Robin Maugham describes the night-time activities of pre-war pedophile Prep school masters in Escape From The Shadows. Mr. Rudge, one of the teachers, also abuses a boy while staying at his home as a tutor. James Moore in The Abomination is first seduced at a 1950s English Prep school by a master, Mr. Wolfe, at age 9. At English public school, he is abused by his music teacher music teacher Dr Fox. David Rogers is a 19-year-old Student when he falls in love with 13-year-old Antony in Sandel. Rogers then manages to get a job teaching at Tony’s school.

Careworkers in England

In A Good Start, Considering, 11-year-old London boy Alan Carey is put into a children's home near the end of the Second World War and is abused by Jacko, a sadistic member of staff.

School Teachers in America

Tracy Parker in the The Coming Storm has a love affair with Noah, a troubled 15-year-old student at a boys' prep school in upstate New York. Aphias Zhe (Fee) in Edinburgh: A Novel, is aged 12 when he and other boys are molested by the choir director ‘Big Eric’ Gorendt at their school in Maine. Mac in Mac is a 14-year-old schoolboy who is sexually assaulted by the school doctor during a routine examination. Neil and Brian in Mysterious Skin are molested by their Little League coach and Richard Hoffman in Half The House: a memoir is abused by his coach when he is aged 10.

Workers at vacation camps/schools in America

Chuck in The Man Without a Face needs a tutor to help him pass the exams required for entrance into a military academy and goes to visit Justin McLeod. McLeod is suspected of molesting him. Jeremy, in Avoidance becomes infatuated with Max, a disturbed 14-year-old at summer camp, who has been molested by the camp director. Simon in The Brothers Bishop is abused during summer school. Martin Moran in The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace has a sexual relationship between the age of 12 and 15, with Bob Doyle, a counselor at a Catholic boys’ camp.

Workers in State Institutions in America

The main plot of Hey, Joe concerns a lawsuit, filed by a group of orphans, alleging sexual abuse against Rae Schipke, executive director of the charitable foundation that supports their orphanage. Theo in Happy Baby was put into care aged 13 and was brutally treated and sexually abused by Mr. Gracie, his caseworker, who protected his from other physical abuse. The four boys in Sleepers are sent to a juvenile detention center, where they are physically and sexually abused by four of the guards.

School Teachers in Other Countries

Georges de Sarre and Alexander Motier attend a Catholic boarding school in 1920s France in Secret Friendships. Father Lauzon and Father de Trennes, have deep feelings for the boys, but there is never any proof of abuse. In Embrace, Karl De Man, a 13-year-old pupil at an exclusive boys' school in 1970s South Africa falls in love with Dominic, a boy of his own age, whose parents know he is gay, and is abused by his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers.

Military Personnel

For a Lost Soldier deals with the abuse of Jeroen, a 12-year-old boy by a Canadian soldier during World War II.

Other Abusers Known to the Victim’s Family

14-year-old treble Neil Pritchard in The Lantern Bearers sings for composer Euan Bone every afternoon. The relationship develops into one of mutual affection and some physical intimacy, but there is no suggestion that Bone abuses the boy. Many years later, Neil discovers than Bone had abused another young boy. Jared in Terre Haute is abused by Julian Clay, the new curator of the local museum. 12-year-old Augusten Burroughs in Running with Scissors is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist Dr. Finch when his parents separate. Burroughs has an extended affair, aged 13, with Neil, the 33-year-old adopted son of the psychiatrist. Antwone Fisher in Finding Fish is sexually abused by a female babysitter.

Abuse by Strangers

Michel in Gide’s 19th Century novel The Immoralist seeks out young Arab boys and his wife Marceline helps procure them for him. Michael Davidson describes in The World, The Flesh and Myself and in Some Boys how he sought out young boys and adolescents for sex in 1930s London. Dave in Mystic River is abducted by child molesters posing as police as he is playing on the street with his friends Sean and Jimmy. Dave is returned home days later, deeply disturbed by his experience. While Jonathan and little Serge are separated in When Jonathan Died, Jonathan seeks out other boys. He is rejected by some and finds no real satisfaction with the others that he abuses.

Violent Abusers

Custis in 33 Snowfish has been sexually abused over a period of time by a vicious abuser, from the age of about 10 to 12, but has escaped at the start of the novel. 13-year-old Jeff in When Jeff Comes Home was kidnapped from a roadside rest stop, and spent two and a half years locked in a dark basement. He was physically and sexually abused and forced to have sex with Ray if he wanted to eat. Billy tells the story of the abduction of 12-year-old Billy Neary by Barton Royal, a man who abducts, tortures and kills pubescent boys. Barton’s psychotic behavior switches between extreme violence and interludes of self-delusion when he imagines that Billy could love him. Hank, the father of Cameron in Counterfeit Son is a predatory pedophile who murdered more than twenty boys. Slayer of Innocence details a lengthy investigation into the abuse and murder of fourteen boys, aged from 7 to 14.

Therapy for abusers

Jerry Houseman, the child molester in Touched had tried to eradicate his urges through extensive therapy, but failed. He is a married man with three daughters, none of whom he molests. He is only interested in boys. He is someone who believes that he is in love with a child and doesn't understand why the rest of the world can't accept that the child loves him back.

The abused boys

Most of the abused boys are aged between 11 and 15, pre-pubertal boys and boys going through puberty. Martin Moran in The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace is first abused when he is 12, and the abuse carries on well past puberty until he is 15. Serge in When Jonathan Died is aged 8 when Jonathan starts to molest him and the abuse continues until Jonathan is 10.

Troubled Boys

Many of the abused boys are described as troubled, including Max in Avoidance; Noah in The Coming Storm; Sander in Loving Sander. Some have no parents like the orphans Custis in 33 Snowfish; Alan in A Good Start, Considering and Cherry Sarah. Jeroen in For a Lost Soldier is sent away from his parents during the Second World War.

The choir boys

Choir boys are frequently abused in literature: Karl in Embrace; Tony in Sandel; Martin in Boy O'Boy; Fee in Edinburgh: A Novel; Neil in The Lantern Bearers is a boy treble. 13-year-old Ruy is a boy actor in Shakespeare's Boy, playing female roles like Juliet.

Young Homosexuals

A few of the boys who are homosexuals as adults are portrayed as taking the lead as children, recognizing that their sexual orientation at an early age is not towards girls, including James in The Abomination. Some of these boys are deeply concerned by these homosexual urges including Gabriel in A Son Called Gabriel. Gabriel starts to suspect that he is not like other boys during puberty, and enjoys a series of childhood sex games with Noel, a young male friend, and also his cousin Connor. The story ends with Gabriel about to go to University and the reader has to draw his or her own conclusions about whether Gabriel will marry Fiona or allow his homosexual leanings to dominate. 12-year-old Augusten Burroughs in Running with Scissors tells Neil Bookman he is gay and then Neil starts abusing him.

The Self-Obsessed

A few boys who initiate or actively encourage the adult abuser are not homosexual or, at least, no homosexual leanings are described in the book. Some may be too young to understand like Serge in When Jonathan Died or Tony in Sandel who is in love with himself just as much as he is in love with Rogers. Tony is both a boy of great beauty, but he has a superb treble voice good enough to win a recording contact.

The Random Victim

A very few, like Bill Neary in Billy are picked out at random by a predatory stranger because of their beauty and presence.

Child Grooming

In some countries, it is criminal offence to make contact with a child with the intent of committing a sex offence. This is often described as child grooming.

Will in Loving Sander makes sure he remains friends with both of Sander’s parents (who have recently split up) to maintain access to the boy. Will first abuses Sander when staying with the boy and his mother Marijke on an island. Martin Moran in The Tricky Part is invited by Bob Doyle to help set up his new boys’ camp and is abused by him on the first evening they are alone. Bob then gives Martin all sorts of new experiences to maintain his affection. 17-year-old Todd Spicer in The World of Normal Boys invites 14-year-old Robin to parties with older friends and then abuses him. Robin then discovers that Todd had done the same thing with Scott when Scott was 12 and Todd aged 15. Rogers helps Antony with his model airplane in Sandel then spoils him on journeys in his car.

Child Sexuality

Older Minor-on-Younger Child Sexual Activity

Nathan in Dream Boy, sexually abused by his father, has a sexual relationship with Roy, an older boy who lives next door. In Lord Dismiss Us, Carleton, a bright sixth former loves Allen, a much younger boy. Todd in The World of Normal Boys is three years older than 14-year-old Robin when they start their sexual relationship and was three years older than Scott when he had sex with the 12-year-old.

Child-on-Child Sexual Activity

13-year-old Karl De Man in Embrace has an affair with his best friend Dominic, at the same time as he is being abused by his choirmaster. 14-year-old Robin has sex with Scott, another boy in his year, in The World of Normal Boys.

Active Participation of the Child

Edmund White describes in A Boy's Own Story how, when he was 15, he had anal sex with his 12-old friend Kevin. The younger boy took the lead. James Moore in Abomination is first abused at age 9 and he welcomes and encourages the master in his advances and the encounters are gentle and loving for the next four years. At English public school, however, he is a much less willing participant as he matures from age 13 to 15. Matthew in Allan Stein falls for his hosts’ very attractive 15-year-old son Stéphane and the boy encourages the man. 10-year-old Serge in When Jonathan Died is sexually very demanding, and Jonathan obliges his every whim.

Tony in Sandel takes the initiative in developing an intimate relationship between himself and David Rogers. Tony leads Rogers on, suggesting for instance that David photographs him without his clothes on. Tony’s aunt knows all about the relationship and sanctions it. Ruy in Shakespeare's Boy is portrayed as a willing participant in his sexual adventures. In The Tricky Part, Martin is initially passive, but then discovers he desperately needs the physical contact. Martin is ambivalent about the touching and other sexual acts: he wants them, but he is also ashamed.

Long-term effect on the abused

Robbie in Touched appears not to be deeply hurt by the abuse itself, though the police investigation, the court experience and the reaction of his family all hurt him deeply. Martin Moran describes the long-lasting effect of his childhood abuse in The Tricky Part, his attendance at counseling sessions for adults who were sexually abused as children and his eventually recovery. Theo in Happy Baby craves for pain and his desire to be hurt stems from the brutal treatment he received as a child in state custody and the memory of Mr. Gracie, a caseworker who raped him when he was aged 12.

Brian and Neil in Mysterious Skin are both molested by their Little League coach. Brian blacks out the memory and believes he was abducted by aliens. Neil believes he was the chosen one and it is only when the two boys meet up as young men that both confront the reality of the abuse. Dave in Mystic River remains deeply disturbed by his abuse all his life. He eventually cracks and murders a man he sees abusing a boy in a car. He is wrongly accused of murdering a girl the same night and is himself murdered.

Denial

34-year-old Wally Day in All American Boy is in denial, denial about his failing career as an actor and denial about the rent-boys he uses, and about what happened with Zandy – the man who loved him and abused him when he was aged 14. After two and a half years of captivity, Jeff in When Jeff Comes Home is released and returns home. Jeff narrates the story of his abuse and recovery and is affected by the shame of not having hated the sex. Jeff initially refuses to cooperate with investigators. His abuser is, however, eventually caught, and Jeff gradually comes out of denial.

Retaliation

Martin O’Boy in Boy O'Boy and his friend Billy are both molested by a church organist. The two boys take their revenge on the man by sabotaging one of his productions. 13-year-old Will in The Culvert learns that other boys in his town have also been abused by older youths and decides to put an end to it. Jared in Terre Haute has sex with Juian Clay on a trip to purchase a new exhibit for the museum. Jared learns to use this experience as a very powerful weapon and starts manipulating everyone around him.

Boy treble Neil in The Lantern Bearers is rejected by Euan Bone when his voice breaks this has a traumatic effect on the boy. Neil cannot understand or accept the rejection. Neil’s steals a manuscript of The Lantern Bearers and plants it in Bone’ homosexual partner’s car, breaking up the relationship. Neil also falsely accuses Bone of child molestation.

Death of the Abuser

Von Aschenbach in Death in Venice stays on in the disease-ridden city and dies watching the beautiful Tadzio play with his friends. Julian Clay, the abuser in Terre Haute eventually commits suicide, possibly because Jared threatened to expose him as a pedophile and a rapist.

Recovery after Abuse
Brian and Neil in Mysterious Skin reacted to their abuse in very different ways: Brian cannot remember; Neil cannot forget. Both eventually find a kind of balance in the other's shared experience. Fee in Edinburgh: A Novel shows how young boy can survive childhood abuse and devastating loss to emerge strong and secure.

Suicide of the Abused

Alexander Motier in Secret Friendships commits suicide when the manipulative Father Lauzon tells him than Georges has denied his love and returned his letters. 10-year-old Serge in When Jonathan Died decides to run away to go and live with Jonathan, but commits suicide by stepping out in front of a car on a busy road at night. Fee, the Korean-American boy in Edinburgh: A Novel survives the abuse by his choir director, but two other abused boys commit suicide. The ending of is not clear, describing walking off into the forest, but it is possible that he is walking to his death.

Literature Lists

Man/boy pedophilia or child sexual abuse in fiction

Novels with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content, featuring a man and a pubescent or pre-pubescent boy include:

33 Snowfish, by Adam Rapp, written for young adults
The Abomination by Paul Golding
All American Boy, by William J Mann
Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
The Asbestos Diary, by Casimir Dukahz
Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal
Billy (novel)|Billy by Whitley Strieber
Boy O'Boy, by Brian Doyle, written for young adults
A Boy's Own Story, an autobiographical novel by Edmund White
The Brothers Bishop, by Bart Yates
The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
Counterfeit Son, by Elaine Marie Alphin, written for young adults
The Culvert, an autobiographical novel by Clint Adams
Death in Venice, published originally in Germany as Der Tod in Venedig, by Thomas Mann
Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
Enchanted Boy by Richie McMullen
Fall from Grace by Andrew Greeley
Flannelled Fool, an autobiography|autobiographical novel by T. C. Worsley
Embrace by Mark Behr
Edinburgh: A Novel by Alexander Chee
Father of Lies, by Brian Evenson
For a Lost Soldier (Voor een verloren soldaat) by Rudi van Dantzig
The Fourth of June by David Benedictus
A Good Start, Considering by Peter Ryde
Hey, Joe, by Ben Neihart
Happy Baby, by Stephen Elliott
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, by JT LeRoy
An Honorable Profession, by John L'Heureux.
The Immoralist by André Gide
Jumping the Scratch, by Sarah Weeks, written for young adults
A Kind of Hush, an autobiographical novel by Richard Johnson, originally published as Getting Even
The Lantern Bearers by Ronald Frame
Little Chicago by Adam Rapp
Lord Dismiss Us by Michael Campbell
Loving Sander by Joseph Geraci
Mac, by John MacLean, written for young adults
The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland, written young adults
The Moralist by Rod Downey
Morning Star, Volume I of the novel sequence First Born of Egypt by Simon Raven
Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
The Priestly Sins: A Novel by Andrew Greeley
Queer by William S. Burroughs
The Romance of a Choir Boy by John Gambril Nicholson
Return to Innocence by Gary M. Frazier
Sandel by Angus Stewart
Sarah by JT LeRoy
Savage Justice by Ron Handberg
Secret Friendships, an autobiographical novel first published in France as Les amitiés particulières by Roger Peyrefitte. Published in the UK as Special Friendships
The Sex Offender by Matthew Stadler
Shakespeare's Boy by Casimir Dukahz
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
A Son Called Gabriel by Damian McNicholl
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by François Augiéras
Teardrops on My Drum, an autobiographical novel by Jack Robinson
Terre Haute by Will Aitken
Time of our Darkness by Stephen Gray
Touched by Scott Campbell
The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace, an autobiographical novel by Martin Moran
What Happened to Mr. Forster? by Gary W. Bargar
When Jeff Comes Home, by Catherine Atkins, written for young adults
When Jonathan Died by Tony Duvert
The World of Normal Boys by Karl Soehnlein

Man/boy pedophilia or child sexual abuse in non-fiction

Autobiographies or biographies with child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content involving boys include:

Altar Boy: A Story of Life After Abuse, by Andrew Madden
Autobiography of an Englishman by "Y"
Beyond Closed Doors: Growing Beyond an Abused Childhood by John Andrews
Escape From The Shadows by Robin Maugham
Father's Touch by Donald D'Haene
Book Twelve of the Greek Anthology contains poetry and epigrams on boy love
Half The House, a memoir by Richard Hoffman
If it die by André Gide, published in France in 1902 as Si le grain ne meurt
Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Out of Bounds by Roy Simmons and Damon DiMarco
The Quest For Corvo by A. J. A. Symons
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Slayer of Innocence, a biography by Jim Conover
Some Boys by Michael Davidson
Strong at the Heart: How it feels to heal from sexual abuse, by Carolyn Lehman, a book written for teens and adults
The World, The Flesh and Myself' by Michael Davidson

Other non-fictional works involving boys include:

Dares to Speak, a 1997 anthology of essays, interviews and other information on pedophilia and is sub-titled Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Boy-Love, edited by Joseph Geraci
The Beautiful Boy (published in the UK as The Boy) is a study of pubertal and adolescent boys, written by Germaine Greer
L'enfant Au Masculin, by Tony Duvert

Woman/boy pedophilia or child sexual abuse in fiction

Novels with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content featuring a woman and a boy include:

Ekaterina by Donald Harington
The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Man/girl pedophilia or child sexual abuse in fiction

Novels with child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content featuring a man and a girl include:

Abby, My Love by Hadley Irwin
Any Bitter Thing: A Novel by Monica Wood
The Apprentice by Lewis Libby
Assumption of Guilt by Harold Mehling
Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Circle the Soul Softly by Davida Wills Hurwin
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Creep by Susan Dodson, written for young adults.
The End of Alice by A. M. Homes
Danger Game, by Julie Lawson
Dream Children by A.N.Wilson
Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson
Far and Beyon by Unity Dow
Fifth Born : A Novel, by Zelda Lockhart
Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Draper, written for young adults
Friction by E. R. Frank
Gillyflower by Ellen Howard
I Was a Teenage Fairy, by Francesca Lia Block
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lost Innocents by Patricia MacDonald
My Aunt Is a Pilot Whale by Anne Provoost, translated by Ria Bleumer
The Photographer's Sweethearts, by Diana Hartog
The Primrose Path by Carol Matas
Promise Not to Tell by Carolyn Polese, written for young children
Riding a Blue Horse, by Carter Elliott
Roger Fishbite by Emily Prager
Secret Lessons by Don W. Weber and Charles Bosworth Jr.
Silver by Norma Fox Mazer
The Storm's Crossing by Reanne S. Singer
Telling by Marilyn Reynolds,
The Trouble With Wednesdays by Laura Nathanson
Wall of Darkness by Judy Lea Koretsky

Man/girl pedophilia or child sexual abuse in non-fiction

Autobiographies or biographies with child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content involving girls include:

A Girl's Life Online, by Katherine Tarbox, describing Internet child grooming
The Hider's Story by Jacqueline Gordon
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Ophelia speaks: adolescent girls write about their search for self, by Sara Shandler
Strong at the Heart: How it feels to heal from sexual abuse, by Carolyn Lehman

Woman/girl pedophilia or child sexual abuse in fiction

Novels with child sexual abuse/pedophile theme or content featuring a woman and a girl include:

Maryfield Academy by Carla Tomaso

Theatre

Plays

Plays with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme (man & boy) or content include:

Afterbirth by Dave Florez
The Child-Killer: Portrait of Paedophile
Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
The Lying Kind, by Anthony Neilson
The Sugar Syndrome, by Lucy Prebble
La Ville dont le Prince est un Enfant, The Fire that Burns by Henry de Montherlant

Plays with a child sexual abuse/pedophile theme (man & girl) or content include:

Frozen, by Bryony Lavery
How I learnt to drive by Paula Vogel
Lolita
Masks and Mirrors, written and performed by Roberta Nobleman
Motortown, by Simon Stephens
Nymphs & Shepherds (A Paedophile's Life), by David Mines

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