101. The number of fatalities, including the number of children among them, is hard to pin down. On James Tabor and Eugene Gallagher's "Why Waco?" Web site, a list of Branch Davidians counts seventy-two dead, including twenty-three children. The
3. Therapy
1. The story of the Diamonds was drawn from interviews and time spent with the participants, including the family, their therapist, Philip Kaushall, and various social-service professionals, lawyers, and others involved in their case, as well as from several thousand pages of Child Protective Services case files kept between December 1994 and late 1996, when I visited. I have changed the names of the family members, as well as the social workers and foster parents whose names appear in the case records.
2. Brian's story was constructed from interviews with the family and from San Diego police, court, and psychologists' records.
3. Shirley Leung and Stacy Milbauer, "New Hampshire Boy, 10, Charged in Rape of 2 Playmates,"
4. Andy Newman, "New Jersey Court Says 12-Year-Old Must Register as a Sexual Offender,"
5. "Police Uncover Child Sex Ring in Small Pa. Town," Associated Press,
6. See Paul Okami, "'Child Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse': The Emergence of a Problematic Deviant Category,"
7. Leonore Tiefer, "'Am I Normal?' The Question of Sex," in
8. San Diego County Grand Jury,
9. Mark Sauer, "Believe the Children?"
10. Toni Cavanagh Johnson, "Child Perpetrators—Children Who Molest Other Children: Preliminary Findings,"
11. Carolyn Cunningham and Kee MacFarlane,
12. David Gardetta, "Facing the Monster: Teenage Sex Offenders in Treatment,"
13. Jeffrey Butts, "Offenders in Juvenile Court, 1994,"
14. See, for instance, the literature of the Safer Society Program in Vermont.
15. Claudia Morain, "When Children Molest Children," American Medical Association
16. William N. Friedrich, "Normative Sexual Behavior in Children,"
17. Okami, "'Child Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse.'"
18. Okami, "'Slippage' in Research of Child Sexual Abuse," 565.
19. Toni Cavanagh Johnson, "Behaviors Related to Sex and Sexuality in Preschool Children," photocopied typescript, undated, S. Pasadena, Calif.
20. Johnson, "Child Perpetrators," 221.
21. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect, NCCAN Discretionary Grants FY 1991, award number 90CA1469.
22. A group of clinicians distributed the proposal at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (October 11-14, 1995), trying to win additional support.
23.
24. See, e.g., Cunningham and MacFarlane,