Even more scarey thoughts....
There have been many studies of convicted sex offenders with some real scarey findings....the findings vary, but even the conservitive estimates/findings are bad.
For every one conviction/victim there are 3-10 other victims.
Adult offenders have a 70-90% recidivism rate. (some are not caught again, but they still do it)
The pervailing train of thought is the an adult sex offender is never "cured." They can be taught skills to control themself, but will always have the urge to offend.
Every victim of a child sex offense is at VERY high risk to become an offender.
Think if one offender has had only 3 victims (highly likely most have many more), 2 of those offend, now 6 more victims, 4 of those offend, now 12 victims, 10 of those, now 30.........
Luckily, the work with juvenile offenders is much more promising. The younger they receive treatment, the better the out come and less likely they will continue to offend.