CASE REPORT: A PROFILE OF SEXUAL ASSAİLANT

Abstract

Although there are numerous studies related to victims of sexual assault, there are few reports about assailants. In this study, a profile of sexual assailant was presented. The case was male, and 17 years old. In his received expression which was taken with claim of crime about sexual assault, the assailant said that he graduated from primary school, worked in production of Tahin halva, liked to touch women and enjoyed looking attheir underwears. The assailantnarrated that he chose women with differentreligiousbeliefs as Alaouite, because he predicted those not to wear underwear. He added that he knew these women’s desires about a man, predictedall of these from their faces, and entered into their homes without sexual intercourse. He expressed that some of women liked his behaviour, and the others feared. Investigativedocument reported that the assailant was a cannabis user, entered into people's homeswhich he followed them before, turned flashlightto the victim's face, cut their underwearswith razor, touched only, was not in asexual intercourse and went away the home after taking theirunderwears. The assailant was a case of fetishism, because he desired underwears of women. And, remarkable point was that desire was only directed to women who had an ethnic identity as Alaouite which was common in south region of TURKEY. Furthermore, another interesting feature of case was absence of sense of revenge or hate while doing this, and assault was carried out attacks in order to remove only his curiosity. In this study, we aimed to present a case of fetishism directed towards women with only a certain religious belief.

Keywords

• Sexual assault
• assailant
• ethnic fetishism

CİNSEL SALDIRGAN PROFİLİ; BİR OLGU SUNUMU

Abstract

Although there are numerous studies related to victims of sexual assault, there are few reports about assailants. In this study, a profile of sexual assailant was presented. The case was male, and 17 years old. In his received expression which was taken with claim of crime about sexual assault, the assailant said that he graduated from primary school, worked in production of Tahin halva, liked to touch women and enjoyed looking attheir underwears. The assailantnarrated that he chose women with differentreligiousbeliefs as Alaouite, because he predicted those not to wear underwear. He added that he knew these women’s desires about a man, predictedall of these from their faces, and entered into their homes without sexual intercourse. He expressed that some of women liked his behaviour, and the others feared. Investigativedocument reported that the assailant was a cannabis user, entered into people's homeswhich he followed them before, turned flashlightto the victim's face, cut their underwearswith razor, touched only, was not in asexual intercourse and went away the home after taking theirunderwears. The assailant was a case of fetishism, because he desired underwears of women. And, remarkable point was that desire was only directed to women who had an ethnic identity as Alaouite which was common in south region of TURKEY. Furthermore, another interesting feature of case was absence of sense of revenge or hate while doing this, and assault was carried out attacks in order to remove only his curiosity. In this study, we aimed to present a case of fetishism directed towards women with only a certain religious belief.

Keywords

• CİNSEL
• SALDIRGAN
• PROFİLİ

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