Oh man. Sorry, I read your post as him having pictures of “anonymous” boys on his computer, meaning porn he accessed on-line. That’s of course horrible too, but if he was actually hurting kids in his care? Yeah, then I can understand your reaction!
Coming from a small town and then going to college in a smallish town I recognize quite a few people on the list. Spent quite a bit of time playing blackjack at one of the local casinos in the vicinity of a jackass who molested his step daughter in another sate. Told her he was checking to see if her tampons hurt her.
Worked with (actually never worked with him but we worked at the same place) a guy on the registry for molesting an 8 year old girl. Never found the details but he was very very slow. I’d say borderline mentally handicapped. Just had a hollow look in his eye. He ended up getting hurt on the job breaking a safety rule (not very well enforced or preached at the time) and was practically crippled after that (broken pelvis, punctured lung). They didn’t have enough reasons to fire him so they had him do little piddly jobs (outside in SD during the winter, no coveralls) and just told him to get back to work whenever he complained. They finally found some excuse to fire him. I’m fairly certain I was the one who let everyone know he was a sex offender. I’m always perusing that website.
Been around a few statutory rapists, some who I would have sided with and some that I never would.
Slightly off topic:
In all my in depth internet/Facebook creepin I found someone I didn’t even believe existed. Back in the 60’s in my hometown there was a story of a 16 year old kid going into the neighbors’ house and killing the entire family. Of course you hear all the rumors that of course he got let out when he was young and then had a sex change and moved to the west coast.
I was thinking about this one day and did some research. Found all the newspaper clippings. He was a sexually frustrated boy about my dad’s age. My dad had said he was really weird. Said he got life in prison but obviously that was commuted because I found the new HER on Facebook living in Seattle.
So all the rumors are true and there’s a convicted murderer on Facebook.
I’ve known several. The brother of a school friend molested some Boy Scouts in his charge, another classmate and casual friend(male) molested some early teen boys.
I reported a molestation of a young friend years and years ago, and was the recipient of the cold shoulder and slander from the man’s family, some other victims in his own family came forward but most of his family wanted to deny it. I moved away from there shortly afterwards and I don’t know what happened after that.
A couple I used to babysit for occasionally had an astounding collection of porn magazines, stuffed into the vanity under the bathroom sink ( so, not even hidden, I discovered them looking for a fresh roll of toilet paper, at least 100 magazines) I was not really aware of child porn then (1973? I was maybe 15) but when I recall the images I saw, those girls were AWFULLY young. I can no longer remember the titles of the magazines but they were definitely MUCH raunchier than Playboy, with which I was quite familiar. As I grew up and learned more I always wondered about him, but now I’d have to wonder about her, too.
In my work as a nurse I have been assigned patients (that I knew were ) murderers, assorted felons, and child molesters. I try to treat them in a civil, professional manner. It isn’t always easy, but I try.
Yup, the father of my goddaughters. I have/had power of attorney for my friends since 1988 because her father is the molester of she and her siblings. She started having health issues after they got sent back to New Jersey by the Navy and she realized that her parents were the closest relatives and NJ’s child welfare bunch would probably contact them if her husband was deployed and she really did not want that to happen. I can get from my house to her house in 4 hours flat if I absolutely have to, so we arranged it so the kids would never have to worry about their grandfather. The only way they have ever seen him was supervised. When she was in having her 6th kid he popped in to the hospital to volunteer to look after the girls until she was back home again. I told him directly that if I ever saw him approach the kids without me being there and without permission ever again, I would happily go to prison for killing him. He got all grumpy and I told him directly that I had been told what he did with his own daughter when she was younger than 10 years old and the only reason I wasn’t killing him right then was my gun was locked up at my friends house and I didn’t want to get blood on the floor [we were in a military hospital and I am not qualified to carry on base.]
The reason she trusted me with her kids was she knew that if he tried showing up at my place to get the girls was that I would shoot his sorry perverted ass if he tried anything to get past me. She left a sealed deposition with me in case I ever needed to explain why I was so defensive against him. She and her siblings had decided that at that time [90s] since his mother was still hanging on to life they didn’t want to send him to the slammer and kill her from the shock/shame/whatever. The girls are now aged out of needing a guardian [sob now I am feeling ancient] but they are very aware of what types of abuse can happen to any female - I seriously doubt any of them have ever even considered going to a frat party 
From bad to worst:
I do some consulting from time to time for a friend. One of his big clients hired us to install some equipment. Then he quit that company, joined another one and hired us again. I knew him reasonably well. When I first met him he had just gotten married to a woman with three young daughters. Several years later he went through a divorce that got very ugly. When things were just about settled mostly in his favor, one of the daughters claimed that he had been molesting her. The other two said that it was bullshit. He ended up serving some time. His co-workers sided with him at first but later mostly didn’t as the trail proceeded and they learned details. I don’t know those details so I don’t have an opinion.
A technician where I work went to jail for a few months for molesting his step-daughter. This one was a total shock. He was a great guy who everyone loved. As I understand it, he did no more than a little groping one time and then totally freaked out on what he did and turned himself in. This is somewhat plausible because he was in jail for such a short time.
The worst case is disgusting as hell. It was a co-worker from a place I worked in the 90s. He was a creepy, squirrelly little twerp that no one really liked. A mediocre engineer who spent much of his time trying to get us to sign up for Amway. I ran into him maybe ten years after we stopped working together and he had gotten married and had a couple of very young kids. A couple of years after that he was in the news. He had become part of a pedophile porn ring and traveled to Europe to produce child porn videos. He got rounded up as part of an FBI/Interpol sting, pled guilty and went to Federal Prison for a few years.
My ninth grade English teacher.
Incidentally, the link I posted in 2005 is no longer working, but this google search has several stories.
Basically, he had risen up to be a county schools superintendent in upstate New York when he was convicted of sexual abuse of a 14-year old boy. The victim was mentally challenged and came from a broken family, which the superintendent deliberately targeted him for. He also used his position as superintendent to stymie the investigation for years.
I should add that in the years since that story broke, I learned that he got grabby with a girl whom I dated years later. He tried to corner her in the darkroom of the school’s photo lab, but she smacked him and ran. (She was around 14 at the time).
Nine years in prison, actually. I just googled it. What a fucking creep.
One of the psychiatrists in my mother’s office was arrested at work one day. Turns out that the Customs Service had intercepted illegal pornography that he had ordered from Europe. When they searched his home, they found a fully-equipped photography studio - he was a legitimately talented photographer - with stuffed animals and toys. Behind a false wall, they found tens of thousands of photos and magazines (this was before the Internet). He also had made a database of his victims, and a manuscript describing his activities over 20 years. He was a contributing editor for NAMBLA, and liked to take portraits - legit portraits - of children; if he could gain their trust, he would take illegal pix, as well. He liked little boys, but he would also take nudes of girls, to trade with other predators. He once asked my mom to ask our neighbors if he could take a portrait of their prepubescent daughter and son. Fortunately, that never happened.
I was 16 when I encountered him, so I was out of his range. But my poor mother went through hell; a local investigative reporter was convinced that the practice knew of his abuse and sheltered him; Mom was the administrator, and had to answer the reporter’s allegations. For months after, she also had to open the doctor’s mail and turn over any porn she found to the DA. She saw some things you can’t unsee.
Some teacher from my high school got busted years after I went there. I only had him for one class, and he was creepy as fuck. No real surprise, I guess.
I have no idea what he did or with who, or what his current status is.
I guess I was lucky as the only thing I can remember from childhood was some contractor my dad had me go with to show him our address to deliver building supplies, and ensure he didn’t just take off with the money telling me drugs were bad, and had I ever used drugs? I said no and then he proceeded to individually list off like twenty drugs.
Ever used heroin?
no
Ever used weed?
no
Ever used coke?
no
Ever used…ok you get the idea.
For whatever reason this only struck me as odd when I thought back on it as an adult lol.
For loose definitions of “known”, I have. I do a lot of *guardian ad litem *work in the juvenile and family court systems, and it comes up way too often.
Anyone who’s gone to Catholic School run by Priests and Brothers has certainly met one or more. I know I did, but not as a victim
The music teacher at my kids’ elementary school was caught with child porn, some of which he’d made at the school. His targets were girls, some of whom were no doubt classmates of my sons.
In as much as over the weekend it was discovered that one of my friend’s housemates (27) has been having an affair with her 14 yo daughters, I guess I do now.
Apparently one of the teachers I knew from middle school was fired for inappropriately touching some girls, since this was told by a friend I don’t have many details so I can’t judge that much but when I was there, I felt some creepy vibes from him.
Don’t know if he classifies as one but it was pretty shocking when I heard this.
I’ve met at least one child molester in a professional capacity and probably several others ditto though they weren’t charged with other crimes at the time. They all went to jail.
I also had a music teacher at school (a Catholic Brother) who was caught kiddy fiddling and was promptly moved on to the next school in the order. No Police and no attempt to keep him away from small boys later.
When I was in college I had a flatmate who was a child molestor. He’s fucked up though. He was sexually abused by his family when he was a kid. Now himself is a molestor. According to him he has a desire for the underage and he’s fighting against it. Whatever it is he’s fucked guy in his 30’s, unstable person.
When I was about 14, there was a couple I babysat for. During the course of this, I found out that the father had been molesting his 8-year-old son.
As others here have said, someone I worked with (many years ago, in a previous life) was a child molester. I certainly never expected it – he had no distinguishing characteristics or behaviors.
I found out the truth not long after I’d worked with him - he was arrested while he was a co-worker. It’s not like they came in and hauled him off in handcuffs – he just didn’t show up one day. And then there was a notice in the newspaper about him.