"curlylad" wrote:If they find the abducter just give me 5 minutes with him/her, that's all I ask. 
...... a sentiment echoed by many, I am sure (including myself). I don't know how it goes on the "other side of the pond", but on THIS side (USA) putting them into the general population in prison usually does the trick.
The sad thing is that most psychologists agree that pedophiles can rarely be cured -- something which the pedophiles themselves freely admit the truth of. Many, when caught, will openly state that they should never be freed.
HOWEVER, the perpetrators who buy and sell children are nothing but common, worthless, human slime and deserve no sympathy whatsoever. What THEY deserve is to spend the rest of their lives forced into living the same hell that they perpetrated on those poor children. No mercy, no possibility for parole.
My prayers go out to Maddy and her family. May she be found soon and returned safely.