 Studies of sexual misconduct in US schools with female offenders have shown mixed results with rates between 4% to 43% of female offenders.Maletzky (1993) found that, of his sample of 4,402 convicted child sex offenders, 0.4% were female.According to research conducted in Australia by Kelly Richards on child sexual abuse, 35.1% of female victims were abused by another male relative and 16.4% of male victims were abused by another male relatives.