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.
This is tricky, not in the moral sense, you abuse kids you should be swinging from the gallows forget life sentences. But the issue is as we've seen especially in family courts malicious parties using the fake accusations of pedophilia against an innocent party to damage and discredit them or even to blackmail for money as in your Michael Jackson style. I feel like this should be in three tiers for sentences:
Tier 1: Documented and physical proof of abuse: Death Sentence
You found the sick fuck in the process of abusing kids, either catching them with the child or they even have footage of themselves abusing kids whether by security cameras or were producers of CP. In these cases it's so clear cut they should get death penalty as they're too much a threat to kids, better to erase them.
Tier 2: situational evidence after investigation: Depending on level of evidence 10-life
This is for cases where they seem to have their hand in it but there's no hard proof recorded that they themselves abused kids. Only witness testimonials and the like. I don't really call for death penalty in these situations when there's A CHANCE they've been set up so just go with imprisonment depending on level where low end turning a blind eye to allow it to happen to high end being a distributor of CP without directly abusing kids.
Tier 3: Just testimonials: standard sentencing or just register
If it's just a wife making the accusations in family court outnof nowhere or something on that level, this should be the maximum. If there's no secondary evidence to provide other than 'I said he's a pedo' I can't condone just throwing someone away for life as there's TOO many cases of wives doing that to get a better ruling in court.
That's just sentencing however, for actual enforcement we have a problem of the difference levels of policing to those that are corrupt and know it's happening to those that lack the resources to deal with it all or have a corrupt DA to some parents like the ones that take their kids to drag queen shows being complicit in it.
It's a complete shitshow.
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.)