Mostly, they don't.
They think they know what one sounds or acts like.
Mostly, they don't.
The most common protest I have heard is "but the children LIKE him" (or her. Don't want people to think I am sexist. And there are far more female sexual predators than people would like to believe).
Yes, the children like him or her or it. That is why they are able to get away with it for so long.
And why the victims remain silent. They have been told repeatedly that no one will believe them. They have been told that if they say anything their families will be targeted. And, sadly, what they have been told is the truth more often than not.
No one will ever tell me Tim Walz wasn’t a predator of young boys. His teaching employment past, his traveling with young boys, his “coaching” fits every criteria of a pedophile.