Out of all the sentencing conventions in the US, I think the typical 5-10 years for pedophilia is the most obviously wrong. There's nothing to be gained from releasing pedos from jail, but everything to lose. The recidivism rate is so high that we need a special class of felon (the sexual offender registry) to try to provide at least some protection to children from further predation. In that light, is a life sentence cruel and unusual punishment as a consequence for child molestation? I don't think so.
The most enraging thing about child serial killers is that almost every one of them has a rap sheet for CSA and rape, but were set free by the legal system, sometimes multiple times, until their cravings got strong enough to kill their victims. The worst case I ever read was a guy that skipped bail for a pedo charge, then went on to kill an entire family, kidnap the youngest kids, and kill one of them before his last victim was rescued.
I don't know who decided that pedophiles should have the privilege of leaving prison, but let's say it wouldn't be surprising if there were a lot of conflicting interests involved.
Well put. This also intersects with another tool which is used to keep men in line - once pedophilia is established as an accusation no man can defend himself from (for women it's different, of course), then the crime broadens until any man that found attractive (not spoke to, or had sex with - just found attractive) a girl the age of 15 years and 364 days can be branded a "pedophile". Then it expands even further so that even attraction between full adults is considered "pedo" when there's an age gap - something which throughout the entire history of humanity across the whole world has always been considered normal.
This crushes masculinity in society as a whole, and leads to the country becoming full of emasculated simps as in Canada, Australia, the UK, etc.
Fun fact: girls become attractive to men after puberty, not when some corrupt bag of shit writes a law defining when it may happen. It's a biological fact and any man who denies being attracted to post-pubescent girls is delusional or worse. (Note that being attracted to something does not make it morally right that you have sex with them.)