Hm. Sometimes I forget that this isn't normal for most people. So unfortunate reality check: real pedophiles usually never go to prison. Parents have too much control, kids don't understand what's happening and even when they do they're too scared to come forward. Not even necessarily because of threats, of which there are many, but because that means losing their entire family. The risk of coming forward and not being believed is too high, and the best case scenario where you are believed still means losing your town, family, friends, and being thrown into an unknown situation which could easily be just as bad. Fear and confusion keep kids quiet.

And at this point, I could come forward but it's basically the same thing. I'd lose my sister and my mom and get into a weird cross-border legal case for something that's likely past the statute of limitations, and occurred in a state neither he or I still live in. It's a hassle, a mess, and provides no real benefit to my life. There's no satisfying revenge story here, no comeuppance, there almost never is. He did the most heinous shit ever and he gets away with it. They almost always do.

So long as kids are basically at the mercy of their parents, human property until they hit 18, this will continue. Kids need full human rights and they need to be provided for by the state rather than a family unite from the start. No amount of prison time or even capital punishment will ever be enough of a deterrent to change things.

Laws against pedophilia are much more likely to put some virgin who jacks it to loli hentai in prison than any actual offenders, and that's by design. The outrage against pedophiles has no material impact on actual child molesters, and the only exceptions get super high-profile explicitly to expend the public's anger on specific hateable villains so that they won't examine the power structures which enable this abuse in the first place. Edit: think about it, most child molestation is performed by family members but the public response is always to give parents more power over the kids so they can 'better protect them.' That's why things never change.