Your friend tells you they're a paedophile

[FatAndFaithless]

See the thing is you can say you believe your friend cause they are 'good people' but you don't -know-.

Do you know what it's like to be told you are lying about your rapist because: he is a good man and he wouldn't do that, I'm his best friend and I know he wouldn't do that, he has never shown any bad signs toward that.

Well I know what he did to me so I KNOW he would have sex with a child. He just knows how to hide his demons. Even when my mom was divorcing him she still went back and forth accepting because who does she believe? Her husband of over 15 years or her 17 year old daughter that claims he was abusing her for years? You can think you know someone and their intentions and you can believe they will be a better person but you can never know.

If someone is already admitting to being attracted to kids you can already KNOW there are demons hiding. There can be no trust to be a better person because you risk too much. You risk your daughter growing up with paranoia, distrust, OCD, PTSD, and severe anxiety... Simply because you wanted to see the best in someone.

A few say you would be their friend but keep your kids away... So now you allow that it could happen too someone else's child.

If they acknowledge that they have a problem they need to work on staying away from all children regardless of if their parents say it's ok. They need to be proactive in keeping away the urges. This is not something to be accepted as just who they are. People can die from the aftermath of being molested. Protecting my sisters is the only thing that got me through alive.

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I don't think anyone in this thread is saying this. That these people need help is pretty much a universal part of the responses here.