It's instinct (in my culture and probably yours) to want to start pulling toe nails out and heating up pokers when one learns about a chomo and hears heart wrenching stories about people's lives ruined.

But it's not obviously the most rational or productive thing to do.

That reaction screams, "We'll I'm not one!" Which, like, bro, no one asked.

The reaffirming and reassuring feeling that you get by shouting, "yeah! let's get em!" along with the mob is not worth the destructiveness it causes for people who are not you.

For victims (children) --

Sorry this happened to you. You need to know that I'm not judging you in any way for what happened. And I don't think this physical event that happened to you is any more significant than any other. You're just you. Go forth and try to have a great life. Feel free to talk about it with anyone who's able to do that for you.

Importantly, if you're still young, understand that open discussion about this, when or if you need it, is critical, as it's bad if you go on and do this or some other hurtful thing to another child. Adults have a secret theory that child molestation is "contagious". You'll never hear it discussed until far, far into your adulthood. It's probably something you should think about. You might cause more harm than you're aware of. Think on it.

To the perpetrator (adult) --

The fact that this whole part of your world is still utterly isolated and can never exist outside of your head is a result of the culture that you live in. This thing stewing in your head for your whole life is the cause of your antisocial behavior, as it also happened to you when you were a child, more likely than not, and you definitely were not able to ever even mention it to another person.

Meanwhile the must-not-acknowledge zeitgeist is the CAUSE of any abnormally high or epidemic levels of something like this.

Why did The Church/The Boy Scouts/Ad Infinitum not stomp out the problem right then and there?

Well, they don't want to besmirch the offender for one. Would you cheer on this besmirchment? "Fuck that guy!!" ... hmm? Do you not see that if the punishment for is absolutely abject ruination and a lifetime of ostracization if not actual physical abuse, that maybe the punishment does not really fit the crime?

"Yes it does!", you are compelled to say?

Added to this is the strong desire to avoid the topic altogether.

Organizations behaving in this way are probably more a result of "it's not polite conversation" within the organization than "we're evil! let's enable the pedophile!"

Without any one person making an ill decision, things get swept under the rug, as that's the path of least resistance.

There's some mating hardware that people cannot get past. It's weird. It's probably a bug, but by the above logic (which is widespread), the punishment for looking in a little girl's window MUST BE crucifixion.

Right? No transgression is too small and no punishment too large.

And you and everyone you know would robotically say and claim to think these kinds of things if queried.

Not good.

Aliens behind the moon laughing.