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pedophilia
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pedophilia n. an obsession with children as sex objects. Overt acts, including taking sexual explicit photographs, molesting children, and exposing one's genitalia to children are all crimes. The problem with these crimes is that pedophilia is also treated as a mental illness, and the pedophile is often released only to repeat the crimes or escalate the activity to the level of murder. (See: molestation, rape, pornography)



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Wood Commission 1997, Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service Final Report, Volume 4--The Paedophile Inquiry, NSW Government, viewed 13 November 2005, <http://www.
The force stressed that there was as yet no specific intelligence to indicate that either traffickers or paedophiles have increased activity in the region.
Sim, who is a model of decency and respectability in appearance, too has paedophile inclinations, in his case young girls.
 
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