The child is to the pedophile as the bottle is to the alcoholic. This is often being treated for a cure rather than as a chronic disorder that needs follow up.

If there was something else to do, then the bat houses had to wait.

Who in their right mind would be sexually attracted to young children?

You can't cure it anymore than you can cure alcoholism, but you can successfully treat it.

We may never know if that child had whooping cough or not, but it was treated because of the whooping cough-like symptoms. All tests of people who have had close contact with the child come up negative.

I am an alcoholic.