Ducks:  May I agree with your post.  I worked six years teaching/counseling adjudicated juvenile sex offenders and victims.  Virtually without exception the male offenders had been first victims of sexual abuse themselves.

  The female victims, on the other hand, were terribly emotionally/psychologically damaged by the molestation they had suffered.  It's a huge counseling/therapy task to help a girl reconstruct her self-image and develop the ability to have meaningful relationships with men after such victimization. 

 I fear Outsider simply doesn't understand the damage sexual abuse causes. Certainly we hope the counseling/therapy the abusers receive is "successful" and they don't reoffend.  However, for the sake of other possible "future" victims, registration systems are in place.  Yes, it does brand these individuals and stigmatize them.. However, my first sympathy is with the victim and my first concern is with those possible future victims.  thanks for your post.  Gary Crum