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by ceejayoz 1471 days ago
I'm not seeing that quote in the article, so it's hard to determine the methodology, but...

1. One pedophile may victimize many children.

2. There's a spectrum of victimization; that wording would seem to include things like being pressured to send nudes.

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Victimized kids victimize other kids. Usually younger ones, and usually relatives. A lot. They don't all do it, of course, but many do. It's... all pretty disturbing.
Here's the study: https://www.weprotect.org/wp-content/uploads/Estimates-of-ch...

Yeah, the overall 57 % figure is the total out of four possible harms targeting persons up to the age of 18.

Because sending nudes to a nine year old is probably closer to what was meant with a paedophile, the following stats is probably a better starting point for putting a tighter upper limit:

> Of the female respondents who received [sexually explicit] content from someone they did not know, 11% were under the age of nine and 21% were under the age of 12.