This is not to say I’m throwing my hat in as “pedophile-friendly”. Far from it. But your post leads me to consider the question:

How many “classes” of citizens should there be? Regular citizens and second-class-convicted-sentenced-served-and-released citizens? Will the constitutional guarantees be different for each class? I guess legally this may indeed be the case. Should it be?

Shouldn’t the actual sentences convey the explicit and complete penalty assigned by the law? Maybe they do for sexual abuse in most states. I don’t know for sure. I’d be much happier with a system that spelled out exactly what rights will be forfeited when a person is convicted of a crime. If we want the convicted to never interact with society again, isn’t that what a life sentence is for? Or the death penalty, if that’s on the table?

Making up new limitations as we go changes “the rule of law” to “the rule of men”. In that environment, we all stand to lose.

“For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

- Thomas Paine