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It's nearly impossible to defend yourself against a charge of child abuse. That's the #1 reason I tend to not favor "convicted-child-abusers can't do x" legislation - so many people cop a plea to avoid the expense and time and destruction of reputation that a public show trial affords.
Why does no one understand that "conviction" is not necessarily synomaous with "guilt"? or that these laws do absolutely nothing to target the people we should really be worried about - the child molesters who are so *good* at it that we haven't caught them yet?
