Sex offence is a treacherous subject.
As a father, I am gripped by the slight nausea and immediate gut-reaction of wanting to hurt someone who hurts children. I’m okay with that. Child rapists are among the lowest of the low; that’s not something I will change my mind about.
I feel similarly, if less viscerally, about a man who forces himself on a woman — your standard rapist.
If our laws were directed specifically at those miscreants, there wouldn’t be the (same) problems we currently have. Unfortunately, someone, and I’m not sure who, decided that the only way to keep our children safe is to come down hard on sex offenders. Sex offenders has become synonymous with child rapists in the mind of the public, so anything done to and in pursuit of sex offenders is fair game.
That by itself is worrying, since even the lowest of the low have rights, but it just keeps getting worse.