Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[Angrboda]

The problem is that you can't simply test everyone who is going to work with children. So saying, "Keep them away" is just not going to work. You're effectively letting them in unknown instead, because they have no choice but to keep quiet.

Once it's accepted not every paedophile is going to grab and rape every kid, just like not every gay you see is desperate to bum you, we'll be able to help each other.

Oddly enough there are projects in Germany aimed at persuading pedophiles, offending and non-offending, to come forward for treatment. One peculiarity of this is that Germany has no mandatory reporting law, so the information presented by their patient group is not at risk of criminal prosecution for divulging. It's unclear whether this has an effect on their self-reports or not, but it does point up how difficult it would be to implement such a program in a country like the U.S. which has mandatory reporting laws. I don't know whether I find that encouraging or discouraging.