Hear, hear! LilyFestre and Jeri have it right imo.

When one says:

"...why oh why dress and market your kid in a way that brings him/her to the attention of people who just can't keep their hands off?", the implication is that there is a way that one can dress a kid that does not attract the attentions of a paedophile. A burka, perhaps?

Further, you say "Your refusal to at least apportion an element of blame to the parents suggested that you don't disapprove of what they did." Whoa. I don't agree with your summation at all and I suspect that you don't actually believe it either, SJ. LilyFestre wasn't implying anything of the kind.

"it's doubtful that this perverted creep would have ever heard of her, and she'd be around now." But maybe some other creep?

"... clearly you know more about the 'business', or maybe the girl's parents, than I do." Snide, Strollin' Johnny. Like most of us here, I don't like the business any more than LilyFestre does; I find it appalling that parents go 'commercial' with their child but in one way - from some parent's point of view - it's not too different from children's participation in league sports.