Karlin said, explaining that many of them exchange newsletters and correspondence to warn each other about which pornographers have been arrested and provide identities of police infiltrators. Pedophiles also use this correspondence network to organize ''referral services,'' such as the Childhood Sensuality Circle of San Diego, which was recently broken up by sheriff's deputies. While the group called itself a children's rights organization, deputies said that at least 30 members from around the country have been arrested on child sex charges, and that in practice the group developed into little more than a contact service for acquiring new material and victims, police said. We don't advocate . . . However, police say that there have been a number of child molestation and pornography cases nationwide involving men affiliated with the man-boy group.
Experts say pedophiles do feel genuine affection for their victims.
A pedophile doesn't purposefully hurt a child. Even when they suspect the child is going to tell on them, they'd rather flee than harm that child. Nicholas Groth, co-director of Somers State Prison's sex offender program in Connecticut, agrees. Most sex offenders I've treated were not cruel or indifferent toward children. In fact, they were over-invested emotionally in the child and tried to fulfill in that relationship all the attention, friendship, affection and power that was missing from their lives.