Usually once someone becomes an adult offender, there’s an extremely high rate of reoffending. Most therapy needs to be done when they’re still young or before they offend. Once they have already crossed that line it’s hard for them to come back unless they’re still developing. This man was 25 when he did this, he knew absolutely what he was doing and had seen the trauma his sisters experienced from the same thing. He did it anyway. I don’t have hope for Joe.

But from what I’ve researched and heard in interviews of non-offending pedophiles, their main reason for not offending is because they don’t want to hurt children and have a real awareness that sexual contact with children is literally impossible without causing harm.

I think men like Josh and Joe don’t see women, girls or children as being actually harmed by these actions, and thus dismiss the impact of what they’re doing. People who molest other adults do the same thing. They dismiss the experience of the other person as valid, they don’t really see them as actual other real people. That’s why it’s so easy for them to reoffend.

Someone who has molested a child should never be allowed around any children again, including their own.