"A 90-year-old pervert raped a young girl and was sentenced to death", "An 11-year-old girl got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor's old man", "A 60-year-old man ravaged ten young girls", "A 60-year-old father collaborated with outsiders to commit shameless acts of brutality and rape. Daughter”, “Perverts’ claws reach out to young girls and widows, sexual crimes among the elderly in rural areas become more and more prominent”… These outrageous news headlines can be easily found in many newspapers and websites. Crime cases involving the elderly have been on the rise in recent years, with sexual crimes accounting for a large proportion, and the cases often involve minors.

Cases of molestation of young girls by the elderly occur frequently

One day in February 2005, the 10-year-old daughter of Chen, a farmer in Sanqi Town, Dazu County, Chongqing City, went to her neighbor Lin Mingxiao after having lunch. Play at home. 74-year-old Lin Mingxiao raped her and gave the little girl 1 yuan to tell her not to tell anyone. The next day, the little girl complained of swelling and pain in her lower body and told her mother what had happened. On the ninth day, they went to the police station to report the incident. At the end of February, Lin Mingxiao was arrested on suspicion of rape.

From July to August 2002, 89-year-old Wu Daquan from Changshou District, Chongqing used a small amount of cash (only 15 yuan according to later investigation) to lure the 7-year-old daughter of a villager in his village. Three rapes were committed. He was later sentenced to 5 years in prison for rape.

72-year-old Qin from Xiangfan, Hubei Province, served two sentences for raping a young girl. Old Qin has no brothers or sisters. Since he became an adult, matchmakers have introduced many partners to him, but none of them have succeeded, and his psychology has gradually become unbalanced. At the age of 55, he seduced a 9-year-old girl. He returned home after serving his sentence at the age of 64. People in the village did not discriminate against him, and the village committee gave him five guarantees of living allowance every year. When he first returned home, he fed pigs, raised chickens, and planted a vegetable garden, and his life was enjoyable. After his life improved, he wanted to find a wife again. Once the other party heard that he had been in prison, no one dared to marry him. After he became desperate, he once again vented his animal desires on an 11-year-old girl. For this reason, the villagers hated him so much that they tied him up and sent him to the police station. After he was sentenced and imprisoned, the village regarded him as a devil and never wanted him to return to the village.

For a long time, society has regarded the elderly as a vulnerable group, but has ignored that this group also has a side that harms society. In particular, the problem of sexual crimes among the elderly is a blind spot in crime prevention. According to information provided by Lu Wei, deputy director of the Office of the Chongqing Higher People's Court, from 1998 to 2003, there were more than 30 cases of rape and underage rape committed by people over 60 years old in Chongqing every year. Crime statistics show that crime among the elderly is increasing year by year. A survey on the basic situation of 59 elderly offenders aged 60-81 in the Second Juvenile Correctional Center in Jiangsu Province showed that 70% were sexual. 40 of the 59 elderly criminals committed sexual crimes such as rape and prostitution. Deng Shengming, warden of Fuling Prison in Chongqing, said that according to the current crimes of inmates, the largest number are: robbery, theft and rape. Rapists show two characteristics: first, the number of rape crimes committed by rural people is increasing, and second, the number of rape crimes committed by the elderly is increasing.

From the perspective of population proportion, the crime rate among the elderly in my country is not high. However, due to the large population base and rapid aging of our country, the absolute number of crimes committed by the elderly cannot be underestimated. The Xiamen Municipal Public Security Department recently made a detailed analysis of some cases of sex crimes committed by the elderly: among the 18 elderly sex offenders, only 2 had a high school education or above, accounting for 11.1%, and 14 had a junior high school education, accounting for 77.78%. , there are 2 people who are illiterate, accounting for 11.1%. Correspondingly, sexual crimes committed by the elderly mostly occur in rural areas with lower educational levels.

Social Factors of Elderly Sex Crimes

Statistical data shows that my country’s existing elderly population has reached 132 million, and it has entered an aging country. It is foreseeable that sexual crimes among elderly men will definitely increase in the future. Due to cognitive limitations and material scarcity, the elderly problem in rural areas is more prominent.

The phenomenon of separation among the elderly in rural areas is extremely common. Although some elderly people have spouses, they live with different children. They rarely have the opportunity to be together, making it difficult for them to have a normal sexual life as a couple. On the other hand, a considerable proportion of the elderly are widowed or never married. They also have their own physiological needs and desire to live a normal sex life. However, some are limited by economic conditions and have no money to marry or remarry; Although some have corresponding financial conditions, they cannot resist the opposition of their children and dare not or cannot remarry; others are deeply bound by the old idea of ​​​​consistency and are embarrassed to remarry for fear of being laughed at or looked down upon by relatives. . Under the control of unhealthy psychology, some people become lustful when seeing sex or become sexually aroused after drinking.

For various reasons, some elderly people simply do not get married and live together outside of marriage. Relevant people pointed out that with the progress of society, there are more and more elderly people living together without marriage. It is becoming more and more common for elderly people in their 60s to live together as unmarried people after being widowed, or to have a trial marriage before getting married.

When normal sexual needs cannot be met, a considerable number of elderly people have embarked on the illegal path of prostitution. According to the reporter's understanding, many major cities in the country have prostitution activities that mainly target the elderly. Since the elderly like to walk in parks, riverside and other places, most of these transactions are carried out in these places. Whenever night falls, in the park on Guangming South Road in Panyu District, Guangzhou, the elderly gather together to play cards. When someone is lucky and wins money, there are always some well-dressed ladies coming forward. And some old people who have won money can't stand the temptation of Liu Ying, and will take them away carelessly.

It is understood that the Chongqing Center for Disease Control releases STD epidemics every year, but does not pay more attention to the STD situation in the elderly. Data released by the Wuhan STD Prevention and Control Monitoring Center at the end of November last year showed that the incidence of STDs in Wuhan has dropped significantly for three consecutive years, but more and more elderly people have entered the ranks of STD patients, and the oldest has exceeded 80 years old.

What’s wrong with the elderly society?

According to Wang Jianhua, chief of the Education and Reform Section of Fuling Prison, Fuling Prison mainly detains male criminals with sentences of less than 11 years, and it is estimated that 10 of them are sex offenders. About %, while the overall number of sex crimes is declining, sex crimes among the elderly are on the rise. The targets of elderly sex crimes are mostly minors, mostly young girls. Because young girls have poor resistance, they can sometimes be coaxed with a few candies or handfuls of pigweed to lure and molest them. Most criminals have a low level of education, and the vast majority are illiterate and have basically no legal knowledge. Fuling Prison Warden Deng Shengming analyzed that the reasons for the increase in rape crimes among the elderly are firstly the poor economic conditions and the inability to spend money in some sexual service establishments; secondly the weak legal awareness. The elderly themselves do not think that these extramarital sexual behaviors are shameful, and they do not think that it is a crime from the bottom of their minds.

Elderly sex offenders are mostly widowed, divorced, and lonely people. Most of them live in single households and have few interactions with others. Or their children have started a family and started a career far away from them, or they have retired at home, or their wives have died or divorced. , so there is a lack of communication with others, and personality disorders appear to varying degrees, and their solitary behavior provides convenient conditions for committing sexual crimes.

With the improvement of material living standards, the physical quality of the elderly has indeed improved unprecedentedly, especially sexual needs and abilities, which are not lost with age as most people imagine. . As long as the elderly are healthy physically and mentally, they also need sex. According to domestic and foreign sexual medicine experts, the sexual life of most elderly people can last until they are over 70 years old, and some of them can maintain it until around 80 years old.

However, the objective existence of the sexual needs of the elderly has not received due attention. In the traditional cultural atmosphere of our country, many elderly men with sexual needs are afraid, unwilling and embarrassed to meet their physical and psychological needs through normal friendship or marriage. Forming an extremely hungry sexual psychology. At specific times and occasions, when some elderly men encounter sexual stimulation, their ethical consciousness and legal concepts can easily collapse in an instant, and they often resort to extreme methods such as molestation and even rape to vent their sexual desires. Because of the psychological and physical characteristics of older men, they often target young girls and mentally retarded women, so older men often commit shocking crimes.

The lack of cultural life is also an important reason for the frequent occurrence of sexual crimes among the elderly. Many elderly people spend their free time at home taking care of their children, and go out to buy groceries. There are only a handful of entertainment activities they can engage in, such as playing cards, rubbing hemp, practicing boxing, dancing, and playing croquet. If you live in rural areas, there are even fewer healthy lifestyle and entertainment options.

I hope society will pay attention to the sexual health of the elderly

Don’t the elderly have the right to pursue sexual happiness? Old man Zhou from Wuqiao Bai'anba in Wanzhou District, Chongqing feels very aggrieved. Mr. Zhou, who is over 60 years old, has been using his pocket money from his small business to buy male-specific tonics since last year. The old man didn't think there was anything wrong with his behavior. After taking the medicine, he didn't store the medicine bottle in a hidden place, but placed it openly on the window sill of his bedroom. The old man's son and daughter-in-law discovered the medicine bottle and learned that the old man was taking such drugs. They protested one after another, triggering a family denouncement meeting against the old man. The sons felt that the old man was taking sex drugs at such an old age. It was simply a shame. It was embarrassing, so he refused to pay alimony to his father. In desperation, Mr. Zhou had to go to Wuqiao Bai'an Legal Services Office and Wuqiao Central Court for help.

Zhang Xueren, a 72-year-old director of the China Geriatric Society and secretary-general of the Chongqing Geriatric Society, said that in terms of sexual requirements, older men have stronger sexual requirements than older women, and the rate of older men remarrying after being widowed is also higher. , and the time between remarriage and widowhood is not long, and the remarriage rate of women after widowhood

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