Lohman says she also has data collected in 2006 from the same subjects, who were between 16 and 20 by that time.īoys having sex earlier, more often than girls Interview data for the study was first collected in 1999 on youth between the ages of 10 and 14, and again in 2001. Their paper, titled "A biological analysis of risk and protective factors associated with early sexual intercourse of young adolescents," was posted online in the Children and Youth Services Review and will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal. It analyzes data from the "Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study" - a six-year longitudinal investigation of low-income families living in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio. Tina Jordahl, a former Iowa State HDFS and public policy graduate student who is now a market research specialist with Hospice of Central Iowa, collaborated with Lohman on the study. "Definitely the age is the most shocking thing about this study." "Those people who say that kids don't have sex at that young of age should think again," she said. We know from our follow-up interviews that one boy who reported having sexual intercourse for the first time at age nine had fathered four children by the time he was 18." "A handful of kids reported having sex as early as 8 or 9. Judge John Aylmer adjourned the case to hear evidence from the boy."So if 12 years was the average age here, that meant that some kids were starting at 10 or younger," said Lohman, an Iowa State University associate professor of human development and family studies (HDFS). The man told the psychologist: “I’m not that kind of person and I’m disgusted with myself. However, the psychologist added that he found no evidence of any interest in paedophilia. He said a report from a forensic clinical psychologist found the man to be immature and introverted and that he has difficulty recognising his bisexuality. She added he is deeply ashamed of what had happened and is willing to accept any punishment that came his way.Ĭolm Smyth, defending, said his client is from a very respectable family who is shocked by what had happened. The accused man’s sister gave evidence that, up until this incident, her family never knew he was homosexual. In a later interview with gardaí, the man admitted that when the boy answered the door to him, he thought he was aged “16 or 17”. The boy’s mother came home unexpectedly and witnessed the sexual encounter.
The garda said that when the boy was interviewed by specialist interviewers, he claimed that the man forced him to give him oral sex.
Garda Malcolm Hooks told the court that while the boy’s Gaydar profile said he was aged 19, another part of his profile read: “I’m not a porn star, I’m a 13-year-old.” The offence occurred on April 13th, 2015. The man has appeared at Letterkenny Circuit Court where he pleaded guilty to the defilement of a child under the age of 15 years. The man, who was aged 30 at the time, arranged to travel to the boy’s home. The boy downloaded the Gaydar app and put up a profile of himself claiming to be 19.Ī man contacted the child a short time later and was told the boy’s mother would be out for two hours.