Not many people would say that.
Not because they don’t have a different view, but because the majority accepts only the most extreme view as legitimate and does not want to, is afraid to, deal with individual circumstances.
They only draw the line by admitting that false accusations are possible and some prosecutors stop at nothing to get a conviction and the resulting public approval while the facts are cloaked in confidentiality and general unspeakableness.
“Not many people would say that.”
You’d be surprised. In my group therapy, it was almost 50%. And we were only discussing jail, not death.
The thing that people rarely understand is that long-term child molesters tend to recognize and groom susceptible children - children who’ve been emotionally neglected their whole lives. The abuser makes him or herself emotionally important to the victim, creating a situation where the abuser is relatively safe because the victim - while not liking the physical relationship - becomes dependent on the emotional one.
Often, the abuser is the first person in a child’s life to show that child what the child comes to think of as non-physical parental love and affection.
Those feelings don’t easily go away. That’s part of the reason why adult survivors of child sexual abuse have so many conflicts over actually comprehending that they were genuinely victims in a criminal situation.