Your friend tells you they're a paedophile

[Chad32]

I'm just saying that you can't trust someone that already admits to being very sick. Sooner or later most indulge themselves. I was reading some of these comments saying that they believe that their friend hasn't done anything yet simply cause they trust their friend. That isn't how it works. If people believed my step dad over me I would have had to suffer his wrath at telling someone. What if this 'friend' DID touch a child and that child is too afraid to speak out or too young to understand that it wasn't appropriate? What if it is the guilty feeling spurring the person to tell you? I'm mostly going against the ones saying that they just accept that this person hasn't and won't do anything wrong, just because. I do see that others are requesting medical help for the friend.

Well it's established that this is my friend. So I should know them enough to know whether or not they're yanking my chain when they said they never touched a child inappropriately. Of course if it was a friend, and I spent a lot of time with them, including with children, I'd probably already have some idea that they liked kids a little too much.

The important thing is the present and future. Which is why I'd maintain contact with them, and make sure they got treatment and whatever else they need. I don't make friends, or throw them away, easily. Now if something comes out that proves s/he did do something wrong, that's for the cops and judicial system to work out.