Woman posed as a boy to be with teen girl

[jannieC]

Several years ago I had an inpatient client who faked her identity online for over a year. She was a teenage girl who pretended to be a teenage boy to have an online relationship with another teenage girl. I remember thinking at the time how easy it is to be whatever you want to be- behind the relative safety of a computer screen. This story, on the other hand, is scary because this woman had a "real life" relationship with this child. How far was she expecting this to go? I don't work with perpetrators so I can't even begin to speculate on the craziness of her thoughts (and wouldn't want to!). Definite yuck all around on this one.

[fringed n fab]

This story is crazy because I used to live just 20 minutes from where this happened. I know Springboro well.

[JWS]

Originally Posted by jannieC

Several years ago I had an inpatient client who faked her identity online for over a year. She was a teenage girl who pretended to be a teenage boy to have an online relationship with another teenage girl. I remember thinking at the time how easy it is to be whatever you want to be- behind the relative safety of a computer screen. This story, on the other hand, is scary because this woman had a "real life" relationship with this child. How far was she expecting this to go? I don't work with perpetrators so I can't even begin to speculate on the craziness of her thoughts (and wouldn't want to!). Definite yuck all around on this one.

I agree. A woman posing as a teen boy is just wrong and sick at all levels.