And their articles on crime will mislead their readers: an axe-wielding woman laying waste to customers in a supermarket; police warning about a homicidal, sex-offending teenage girl; a woman punching and squeezing a one-year-old to death out of frustration; a female paedophile prosecuted for grooming children online and then meeting up with and raping them. (These are all real examples, and in every case the fact that the ‘female’ person was in fact male was left out of many reports.) Women almost never commit these sorts of crimes – and yet reports of women committing them are becoming
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