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  • noun Plural form of paedophile.

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Examples

  • Less than 5% of the abusive priests could be defined as paedophiles because the majority of victims were aged between 11 and 14.

    US Catholic Church study blames 1960s permissiveness for rise in sexual abuse 2011

  • The staff are fantastic, I can take as many pictures of David and whoever he’s playing with as I want, and I have never been asked to stop taking pictures by a member of staff there.) The labelling of all people who take photos of children as potential paedophiles is as ludicrous as the suggestion that everyone who takes “too many” photos in a public place is a terrorist.

    Best Article Of 2009 « Barefoot in the Kitchen 2009

  • The reduction of education to little more than the 'decontruction' of 'East Enders' and with all teachers who so much as annoy a child immediately classified as paedophiles; on the other hand, all child delinquents are 'understood' and their behavour blamed on 'deprivation' or fizzy drinks.

    A Ministry For Men 2007

  • It implies that young people are in some way responsible for the activities of paedophiles, which is an extremely dangerous argument and one which has echoes of the comments sometimes made around rapists and women's dress.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • It's not just rapists and paedophiles, which is unfortunately how it gets boiled down in the media, and in the government's subsequent talking points, and we need to remind ourselves that not all sexual offences are created equal.

    Progressive Bloggers Hill Queeries 2010

  • It's not just rapists and paedophiles, which is unfortunately how it gets boiled down in the media, and in the government's subsequent talking points, and we need to remind ourselves that not all sexual offences are created equal.

    Progressive Bloggers Hill Queeries 2010

  • Why are we allowed to call paedophiles 'paedos' but not allowed to call homosexuals 'queers', 'poofters' ..?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Why are we allowed to call paedophiles 'paedos' but not allowed to call homosexuals 'queers', 'poofters' ..?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • I wonder how many of these so called paedophiles are in fact approached and 'groomed' by the police?

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Now all of their children think that those working in the school are potential paedophiles, which is even worse than the glorified childminders that their parents take them for.

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2009

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