Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Every man might be a rapist too...

I'd still like to see practical solutions here. Since no one is coming forward, you don't even know who to keep your kids safe from. So what do you do?

I taught my son to run and scream if any unknown person tried to grab him. I taught him that if an adult even known to him touched him on his genitalia, that Dad was always a safe place to go with that information. We got him a cell-phone at 9 years old and told him to call 911 and not say a word.

What I did, myself, was vet his babysitters -- I used two, regularly, whom I knew as neighbors. I used online data to check for previous offenses, and also asked around.

Not a perfect set of solutions, but it's worked.

Ostracising an offender, no that's fine. Ostracising someone just for their urges, yes that's very wrong. That's the problem.

Again -- how do you know if and when they might stand up to their urges or not?