I used to work for a children's charity where I was responsible for assessing and training volunteers, in non-child contact roles. Part of my training was learning that we had to do full background checks on all volunteers, even if they never came near children because in the past there had been cases of men who had volunteered in the most menial roles for years/decades built trust and eventually accessed vulnerable children who they went on to abuse. Years of literally dealing with rubbish so they could eventually, possibly get access to victims. There is very little predators won't do to abuse. They will play a long game that most people can't naturally quite get their head around.

So as a society we have had to learn and understand what they will do. We have had to put in so many safeguards, especially for children. And right as we've just started learning that and making our children safer than they have ever been. Our society collectively takes leave of it's senses and creates a sacred caste that can do anything unquestioned because they are the biggest victims of all and no-one would ever pretend to be one, for even just a few minutes, to access victims. It's fucking mind-boggling how stupid this is.