Originally Posted by barry12345

I have dealt with this a little. I imagine we all feel the same basically. Yet pedophiles in general do not land up dead. Or I at least have never heard of a case. Yet I still think there might be some.

I also have had issues trying to get parents to get charges laid avoiding the issue with statements like someone will kill the bastard or whatever. Actually in the vast majority of cases charges are probably not laid.

On that basis alone I feel there are no reliable statistics. My last statement is only a supposition and one has to remember that the majority of children either through confusion or whatever tell nobody of the occurance or occurances for years. At least there are no statutes of limitations on this type of crime.

The whole issue in my opinion is a little more complex than one would initially suspect. At least there is today some educational elements that help some children to tell what has occurred. I imagine they felt some implicit guilt or threats silenced them in the past more than today. We teach them to obey grown ups after all.

The offender being charged and convicted seems to offer no relief to the victom particularily in the cases I have observed. The thrust seems instead for the state to get the future activity stopped rather than giving any relief to the victom.

If the person charged pleads not guilty the child will have to be subject to court. On a one victom to one predator basis this experience and process can be very hard on the child. Usually the child molester will be warned that the penalty if convicted will be greater if the child is forced to participate in a trial.

If this approach is illegal and I suspect it might be it is still used locally. Most local pediophiles plead guilty anyways. I hope most lawyers are at least partially responsible for this.They have family and children as well.

It in the overall scheme of things is up to the parents to protect their children. Opportunity must be present for child preditors to function. After the fact is a parenting failure to me. As a general rule a parent cannot undo the mental damage.