Good for them. What percent of people appear to be pedophiles? We aren’t talking about a crime where there’s a giant, flaring alarm system that can be heard for blocks. In some cases you’ve got parents (almost predominantly fathers) abusing their kids; other times it’s uncles, cousins, friends of the family, etc. If those involved chose to ignore the court’s findings (and I can almost guarantee you I know several people just like that) and allow pedophiles around their children, you’re looking at a likely case of a repeat offender not being caught. What you have is “appear not to be molesting children anymore,” not “no longer have the desire to be sexually involved with prepubescent children,” though I will freely admit I have no cite - and I’d be surprised if there were a cite - showing the percent of the latter.
The guy owns a restaurant. You want “personal” service? How about a grade school? In addition to having a family of ten children, that is. Also helped to found a church. Published author, poet, translator. Educated man. You’d think he’d have known better.
Stand-up guy in public. Not so much in private. A lot of people trusted their kids around this guy (and his kids, and including all of those kids).
Goes toward the low repeat offender rate. They try hard enough, as is, not to get caught. Getting caught, if you are determined to continue doing it, just means you’re going to try harder unless the punishment becomes too much (or, preferable in my opinion, just isolates you from children. Permanently.).
Perhaps I’m in the minority here, but nobody ever say me down and said “iampunha, when you get to an age where you can be labeled as a pedophile, do make sure you don’t go molesting children.” My understanding is that pedophilia isn’t one of those things you have to be shown is wrong.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that being abused as a child can be a determining factor in being one, but it can also (fortunately) make you a victim who doesn’t continue the cycle. I do not have statistics on the number of pedophiles who were molested as children or had an “unhappy upbringing” (I suspect you mean that to sound more unhappy than it does), and I do not currently have enough love in my heart for pedophiles to go googling anything revealing same statistics in an attempt to defend them.
Regarding being shown that something is wrong: does that then take the desire away from them?
The DSM-IV-TR is the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (that site claims the version posted there is incomplete). The IV refers to the fact that it’s the fourth edition.
There are probably more than a few sociopathic murderers, sociopathic fraudsters, etc. I don’t want people outside of prison walls who have a fundamental inability to understand basic concepts such as “Don’t go randomly knifing your next-door neighbor,” “don’t go randomly holding up banks” and “don’t rape children.”
No, if I had children, I sure as hell would not want them around anyone convicted of pedophilia. And while children should already know not to go off with people they don’t know, it can be mighty hard to resist a nice, unassuming stranger with candy, so to speak. Finally, I would really rather not have to hide my prospective children, anyway; I’d rather not have to deal with a pedophile ever again.
Our of curiosity, how familiar are you with the many ways pedophiles and other sexual aggressors work?
I tend not to want to trust people who’ve gone fondling children. Mostly that’s because it tends not to be a one-and-done thing. This guy, for example, sexually assaulted at least two minors. To me, the second one was his second chance, though I’d just as soon rather not give such an opportunity to someone who was messing around with a five-year-old.
I’d submit to you that there’s a difference between “barely statutory” sexual misconduct and a man who does things of a sexual nature to young children. The DSM-IV-TR, in fact, makes specific allowance for this:
To me, there’s a difference between a five-year-old and a female teen who’s a month away from being of legal age. I don’t want to be around someone who’d be sexually involved with the former.
Or perhaps they are likely to work hard not to get caught.
I freely admit that my posts have are colored as much by my experiences as by anything else. However, I do not find it realistic that a majority of pedophiles reach down deep inside, suddenly (or even over a period of several years) click and realize that molesting children, regardless of how deeply they want sexual relationships with their five-year-old nieces, sons, daughters, students, college buddies’ kids or whatever, is wrong, and are never again dangers to children.