The really scary part of this is, it wasn't about yet another mother who wanted a girl, just liked to dress up the kids, or wanted a less rowdy & rough son so tried to make him get in touch with a feminine side to calm him down, to make him behave a little more delicately. It was the ugly creepy looking guy's idea, & it wasn't even his kid. WTF was this sicko thinking?
Sure we have sissy & ABDL fantasies, just like many other people have all sorts of fantasies or fetishes, or like role-playing games with willing adult partners. In just about any large city there are thousands of kinky people who like role playing or bondage. But the normal ones don't go around kidnapping or imprisoning unwilling or under age people. Likewise, even normal heterosexuals don't go around raping women they think are sexy, or under age girls.
People have all sorts of tastes, dreams, & fantasies. But no matter what they are, normal & sane people don't act them out on unwilling people or kids.
Even in the non-sexual arena, some people like crime dramas, war movies, wrestling, or boxing. But the normal ones don't want to go out & beat or kill somebody.
It's sad that there's so many people & kids who want to dress up, or who are gay, but if their parents ever found out, they'd beat the crap out of them or administer some other extra severe punishment. In almost every city there's some kid getting beaten or severely punished for being caught with girls clothes, being a little feminine, or being suspected of being gay. Yet we almost never hear of parents being prosecuted for it.
To some kids it would be a dream come true to be able to wear a dress around the house, & to have mom help put on the makeup would be amazing. Instead, they don't dare let their secret out or get caught in a dress or their parent would half kill them.
At 5, it scared the crap out of me to see the kindergarten teacher punish the boys in the school by putting them in baby girls outfits. But by 7, I fantasized about it to the point I tried on a sailor dress & tights when there was nobody around, & loved it. By 9 or 10, I dreamed about being one of the kids being sent to kindergarten to be punished all the time.
But I was never brave enough to misbehave to get there. I wouldn't be able to bear the humiliation of standing there in front of everybody laughing dressed like a baby girl. Plus, if I would have misbehaved at school, I would have gotten beaten when I got home. Beatings by parents in those days would leave sore marks for at least a week, & you could get beaten as young as 4 y/o for being bad or too loud. But that's nothing compared to what bullies do to kids smaller than them or who aren't butch enough. Just like today, the bullies rarely got punished for it. It was considered all part of growing up, & making you a man.
It was typical, normal, & acceptable to treat kids that way back then. Petticoat punishment too. If the attitudes & laws today existed 40-50 years ago, more than half the parents & teachers in the USA & UK would have been sent to prison for what they did to kids. Back in those days you were considered a bad parent if you didn't beat the crap out of your kids or severely punish them a lot, even if it was just for getting a little to noisy or loud playing around. Growing up in a house with 6 siblings, almost every day at least one of us kids had the crap beaten out of them for something.