If it is a sexual preference (and not a behavior you are born with) then that means you put your own wants above the law, and above the feelings and consideration of others. That is beyond "help" that's reason for downright punishment, IMO. Help would be OK to offer a man who admits he has these feelings, but realizes they are not only illegal, but wrong! Then he should get help, and he should get it with no critism, but to wait until after the fact, after he has hurt a countless number of people, and only AFTER he gets caught, is he willing to say "his dad did it to him", I think is a poor excuse that we as a society get suckered into believing.
I mean, I like diamonds, and to say my mom always had them, and she taught me that as a woman, they are a necessity, so that's why I stole them... I do not think help should be offered. I honestly think that in todays day and age, with issues such as these, help is available and EVERYBODY knows it's available BEFORE they go ahead and commit the crime.
Now if your born with the urge, which, I agree with you Darth, but if it IS possible and you are born with it, then again I think you know you need help before you actually do it. I think if you have enough sense to try to hide the crime, then you have enough sense to try to find help and if you choose not to then I think society has no need for you and prison would be a nice home.
That'd be my opinion though.
I do have a family friend, who I grew up with and my family trusted him completely, and he has never laid a hand on any of us kids. Then years later, he messed up with a child, just once, got caught, and is currently in prison for 18 years. I love the man, he is still a family friend, I let the justice system judge him, but even though he has never laid a hand on me or my cousins, I still will not leave my daughter alone with him. I honestly do not think he will ever do it again, but the risk is to big to chance. Because of the same risk, I think whoever lives around him has a right to know, not that he's DONE it, but that he's capable of DOING it. Changed or not, people have a right to know what their neighbors are capable of when it involves something as irreplacable as your child's innocence.