Posted On: January 22, 2007, 11:12 pm CST

Posted By: Jane

I've got to add one more thing. Media is really driving hysteria over pedophiles - they are everywhere, everywhere after our children!! Oh John Walsh of America's Most Wanted is so heart rendering about how his son was killed by a pedophile! Except truth be told - they never found the killer of his son. Nor did they find enough pieces of the boys body to know whether he was sexually assaulted or not.

First, pedophiles are adults who have sexual preference for children - and that means children under the age of 12 and an adult over the age of 21. They are actually very rare and they do not kill. Killing is more for the psychopaths who kill all ages of people. When sex involves a teenager and someone older, it is not pedophilia.

All most all pedophilia involves family or very close friends and is between two, rarely repeated with others.

Most often what is going on with these teenagers we hear about is statutory rape which means violation of age of consent laws. That is to say, the teenager wanted to do it but the other person was past the legal age limit (3 years older in my state of Texas) and thus, is charged with sexual assault.