Let’s see. Where will child molestors want to work? Surely not around children! No, they would work in places with no access to children. After all, that would be the surest way to frustrate themselves.
Of course we are going to find that child molestors take jobs that put them in contact with children. We will not find them doing underwater welding. Or space station maintenance. There really aren’t a lot of kids up in space stations.
So, given that child molestors probably aren’t all that dumb, they are going to try to find jobs that give them more contact with children. Similarly, when we find a child molester, they will probably have a job that puts them near children. There should be no big surprise here.
Personally, I was never very fond of children. They scared me more than clowns and whatnot did. So until I had children of my own, I didn’t hang around places where there were children. And even when I did have children, I spent as little time in children places as I could because, sue me, I don’t like children’s activities. I don’t like talking in a high voice. I don’t like making fart jokes. I don’t really like thinking like a kid.
My children, therefore, probably had to put up with more adult stuff than most kids do. I did not respond well to high pitched screaming, and stopped that one right away. With a lesson and a challenge, mind you.
So no, I didn’t get creepy vibes from the people you mentioned. There was one thing that worried me. That was the the young man who worked in the daycare center. Why is a young man working with children, I wondered? But I got to know him, and came to trust him, and he became one of the kids favorite babysitters.
Oops. I lied. There are a number of women I know, but one in particular, who does the kid act thing. She’s a mime, actually. And she weirds me out. Her emotions don’t seem right, and she’s always talking in a high pitched voice (not during her act), like she’s a kid. Turns out she had a bit of abuse as a child. She married someone twice her age (she is, of course, much closer to him in age now) which was considered strange. I don’t really trust her, but I don’t think (and really hope) that she wouldn’t hurt a child. She didn’t want to have a child, but her husband convinced her to have one. I hope she’s found she’s a better mother than she thought she’d be.
