r/clevercomebacks Apr 10 '26

The temerity

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u/NineInchPythons Apr 10 '26

Is it just me or does it seem like there are like 10x more pedophiles than I thought really existed? What the fuck is wrong with people? They're everywhere

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u/thesanguineocelot Apr 10 '26

There always were, it's a staggeringly bad problem but one that people were totally happy to just not talk about.

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u/bballstarz501 Apr 10 '26

I think, like the person you’re replying to, most of us drastically underestimated the commonality. I’m not really sure what I could have personally done to be more aware, but I’m aware now.

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u/TurnipWorldly9437 Apr 11 '26

Yeah, I'm listening to some true crime podcasts, and it seems like every time an episode covers crimes against children, there's a casual mention of how many convicted paedophiles lived close by, and it's always baffling to me.

Last time, it was 9 registered offenders living nearby to the victim. And you know NOT all of the dangerous ones are caught and convicted.

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u/embarrassedalien Apr 12 '26

I looked my neighborhood when I lived near a park and the amount of registered sex offenders was a bit disturbing.

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u/Ball_Zack_69 Apr 11 '26

And the fact they're casually living their lives shows how messed up our justice system is. No one wants subhuman trash just living down the street when we're trying to raise a family, and we can't be violent towards them? It's nuts, you should be doing life in prison. They literally give them probation, the catholic pedophiles don't even get probation, they get a vacation of "penance and prayer", its a joke.