I think it's perfectly possible for a child molester to give the appearance of being 'decent and good' in all the other areas of their life, but that only makes them more dangerous. There is a strong element of addiction in child molestation and addicts can be extremely crafty and resourceful in supporting their addictions, particularly the more intelligent ones. Understand addiction, and you're halfway to understanding child abusers. They can only be stopped by completely removing the opportunities, and in the case of child abusers, should be completely stopped - nothing less is good enough.

Thank you for making the important distinction between paedophilia and child molestation, CS, people tend to forget that. 'Paedophile' comes from the same root as 'Anglophile' and 'Francophile'. I don't think the people we are discussing have a great deal of love for children.