Ok, my last reply on the topic since a couple people are confused by my admittedly poor choice of words to the point that someone even thinks I'm trolling.
Step mom: licensed psychologist highly educated but mostly trained and worked in the field of substance-abuse counseling her entire psychology career. "Fell into her lap," extremely poor choice of words didn't even realize it when I said it. To clarify she had retired and after breast cancer decided to rejoin the field and this job offer came to her from a career recruiter. She had no real training for forensic psychology, let alone practical experience dealing with counseling, evaluating, assessing and treating sex offenders at all. So I believe she's allowing herself to be manipulated and using her own personal judgments not her professional or educational training which she admittedly lacks in for such a specific population.
Me: I don't see any form of pedophilia as a sexual orientation we should be accepting of. I see it clearly and solely as a crime, and a crime of the most serious nature-- more so than any amount of drug charges, theft or things of that nature. Person is guilty of these crimes should be punished severely but strangely they seem to get lighter sentences than drug crimes, or even DUI. From my education in the field of clinical psychology (with a special emphasis on forensics), these people especially repeat offenders are immune to treatment and can only be controlled. I'd be happy to be wrong and if new innovations in the field allow for rehabilitation it would be terrific but honestly I don't see it and I think they need to be put away.
Lastly, what I had said about being innocent but accused of some sort of pedophilia crime comes from a personal experience in my teen years. Before I matured, dedicated self to martial arts, went to college, and grad school, I got into trouble as a teen and put in adult jail for almost a year (assault and various charges resulting from a high school fight between groups, NO sex crime) in Philadlephia. As a reference for the environment, Holmesburg is the only jail in the U.S. that had a warden and a deputy warden murdered by an inmate on the same day. Hey man in my dorm room was beaten to death in front of me by a gang (who literally made ski masks out of pillowcases) and it's impossible to describe the incident but suffice to say it was horrible. Reason for this part of the story is this man was beaten to death for being a suspected child molester. The guards later announced to the entire tier that the man was in jail for his second DUI and had never been accused of, let alone charged with any such crime. So I would have sympathy for anyone accused of such a horrific crime they didn't commit because the penalty they are going to pay can be unbelievable.
