When I was Federally indicted I had to fuck around between State and Feds because they were playing games with charges so that I couldn't bail...Eventually the Chief Magistrate got fed up and threw some of the charges out on the prosecution because he was tired of getting the run around on a single question...
That being said it was for steroids (among other things - guns, weed, etc)...Now I went in on a Friday and the next morning a group of guys were brought in for pedo shit, they were also running a video ring out the back of one of their businesses. I was denied bail that Monday while each and every one of them were granted bail. The state judge is even on record asking the prosecution if HGH came with a life prison sentence...No fucking shit, seriously! The DA in complete bafflement - "No sir, you may be thinking of something else??!!" Yet, just another day dealing with pedos and issuing bail...da fuk?!
I've had family members (on my wife's side) busted for pedo shit up north...Also family (my mom's side) down south busted for the same. From what I have seen the southern states don't fuck around with that shit, the northern states treat it as a sickness and they walk 9 out of 10x.
Unlike everyone else in this thread I won't bash you...The shit is a fetish the same as anything else, not something I'm into but the human mind is a fucked up thing (I'm a feet man (fench tips, diamonds on toes/ankles, tats) and some would say that was sick until I stand next to a pedo hehe). The people I've known personally that ended up getting popped (because we never really know who is into that shit until they get caught up in it, and the ones that we think are usually aren't and it's usually the other way around), aren't bad people, they're actually some of the nicest within that particular circle most times...But they're into some fucked up shit and that's a fetish that cannot be indulged, the same as banging animals and any of that other creepy shit.
I won't write someone off because they're into that shit, not my place to judge anyone unless you directly inject yourself into my life (though I'm only a stepdad and youngest stepson will be 30 this year, so don't have to worry about that type of shit happening to my own)...But yes, they should have to register and they should have to be monitored, and obviously prison if rape is involved.
edit: Also, this thread is being moved to the Counseling Forum.