Hope I am not repeating as a post seems to have disappeared. Anyway, yes I do believe that people can be both perveted and basically good at the same time. We don't know enough yet about the results of brain damage, fetal alcohol sydrome, "bad mommy" syndrome, autism spectrum, drugs taken by mother, chromosomal damage etc. to write the whole person off. People struggle with things we have no idea of and sometimes they don't struggle hard enough and sometimes they do to the end of their capacity and do awful things anyway. We have to protect people from them, and set up safeguards so that others do not have similar opportunities, and we have to do more psychological and neurological testing and case histories etc. so we understand why this happens. A lot of people especially now are surviving with brain problems that would have kept them institutionalized before. A lot of kids being mainstreamed today are going to have problems in society as adults. It is a very complex problem. Once children and vulnerable adults are safe, I think it is OK for us to have some compassion for the perps and see that they can never do this again, but parts of them can be salvaged. Not all people of course, but some. mg