“For [Mark] Safarik, a special agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Ream’s arrest and conviction prove once again the value of research. Safarik has studied 128 cases of elderly women raped and murdered, and the 110 men who committed those crimes. ‘All these guys really look very much the same, so it’s pretty interesting,’ Safarik said… Safarik, a 22-year veteran with the FBI, first became interested in such crimes about a decade ago when he realized the dearth of information and research on the subject. It is a rare crime, and as such had received little attention. Only about 3% of the nation’s 17,000 homicides each year are elderly women; about half of them involve some form of sexual contact. Over the years, he studied police reports, autopsies, crime scene photos and psychological evaluations of rape-murders from 30 states over 24 years involving women age 60 and older. What he found amazed him. Unlike many crimes where profiling can only hint at possible similarities, these involved men who were astonishingly similar…” — Detroit Free Press (US)

In only the third story that was posted to the then young site, PervScan noted that gerontophilia “is one of those fetishes that always makes you scratch your head and go, ‘Hmmm.’ The victim in this story was 84 years old. What’s the allure exactly? Wrinkles? Dentures? A gray bush?” And that’s really the most common response when you happen to hear of some guy raping an old lady. Why? Why a little old lady? If you’re going to risk going to prison for a sexual offense, shouldn’t you at least rape someone who is younger and, by most standards, sexier?

If you’ve ever wondered what sort of person ends up raping old ladies, then this in-depth profile of Mark Safarik, of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, is well worth reading. Mr. Safarik has discovered that gerontophiles conform to type more often than most other sex offenders. They tend to be youngish (around 27), alcoholic, poorly educated, unemployed. They tend to live near their victims. They tend to have criminal records, but few arrests for sexual assaults — a seeming oddity that helps to explain the fact that gerontophilia, in Mr Safarik’s estimate, is rarely a sexual crime. “In these cases, they are looking for an available and vulnerable target; that’s why they don’t assault members of their peer group,” Mr. Safarik explained. “And once inside the house, they have unfettered access and all the privacy they need, so when you look at it that way, you can see how it’s not difficult to explain because they’re taking back the power and control they don’t have. And rape is the most intimate way to assault a female and express your rage.”

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