Was Roman Polanski a child when he committed his crime?
14 year olds are regularly charged as adults in society. Someone at that age is in control of their faculties especially when knowing right from wrong regarding molesting siblings and other young children.
Irrelevant. A guy that is sexually turned on by little girls and acts on it is a pedophile. There's something WRONG with him. This is not a childhood thing. It's a deviant thing.
I get the feeling that if the family's faith didn't exist the apologists for this jerk would be running for the rope and tree.