[Dianna]

Well, this could explain how the middle class engineer became a child killer.

It sounds like we only know that Westerfield's grandfather molested girls. I "think" molesters don't tend to switch hit, but I'm not sure if that's something I've learned or read some where or if I'm just assuming.

[Defiant]

Agreed, Dianna, it's just something that could explain his aberrant behavior. It's something to ask about. He may not have been picking strawberries those summers at Grampa's farm. Was he a subject of abuse, or did he observe, hear of and/or learn about such behavior from a respected family member, and thereby begin a flirtation with perversion? Questions for the prison psychiatrist to delve into, I guess, but I'm a little surprised that Feldman did not use it to try to evoke sympathy. I suppose that he did not want the jury to be more convinced of guilt, even if it means that they will be less inclined to be merciful.

[SouthernFreebird]

Pedophilia "Pedophilia involves reoccurring sexual arousal and desires or fantasies involving sexual impulses toward a pre-adolescent child or children".........

"The pedophile is sexually aroused because the child is a child, regardless of the pedophile's sexual orientation, or the child's gender."

Personally I don't think Westerfield had to have been molested himself to become a pedo/killer