A Pedophile Kills the Innocence of a Child and Causes a Lifetime of Trauma

By: Donald V. Watkins

Copyrighted and Published on September 10, 2025

An Editorial Opinion

I met the pedophile depicted in this featured photo early in my legal career. He raped each one of his three daughters on the day they became a teenager.  With this incomrehensible act of incest, he killed their innocence.  I will not disclose the name of this pedophile out of respect for his victims, who are now adults.

In the early 1980s, this man was a powerful police lieutenant who was extremely popular in the local white community. None of his superiors in the police department wanted to believe what he did to his young incest victims.  At my insistence, a brave district attorney named Jimmy Evans listened to these young victims and believed their account of what happened. 

Much to the consternation of higher ups in the police department, Evans indicted this pedophile, convicted him, and imprisoned him for a long time.  He died last year.

This man was the first of many elite pedophiles I would encounter during my 46-year legal career.  Based upon what I observed in this man’s child rape case and in many others, I learned how to investigate child molestation and child rape cases, how to track down and corner elite pedophiles, and how to imprison them. 

Elite pedophiles are usually protected by the powerful forces that maintain the political status quo.  This automatic form of protectionism is a kneejerk reaction to the charge of pedophilia. These forces look for ways to support the pedophile and ignore the young sexual abuse victims.

I look for ways to bust elite pedophiles, protect the victims of their crimes, and imprison the men/women who sexually abuse children.  The job title, wealth, social standing, or political affiliation of an elite pedophile means absolutely nothing to me. 

Pedophilia is NOT a political issue. It is a category of serious crimes that adults commit against innocent children. Pedophilia kills the innocence of a child. It scars the victim for life. Pedophilia results from our collective failure to safeguard and protect the most vulnerable members of society.

The character traits of an elite pedophile and his/her pattern of despicable behavior are always the same.  They are slimy, pompous, narcissistic, arrogant, empowered, compulsive liars who will say and do anything to cover up their sexual abuse of children.  When those of us who are specially trained to spot pedophilia look at the details of their behavior, listen to their words, pay attention to their actions, and place the relationships in question under heightened scrutiny, they are pretty easy to spot.

I have zero tolerance for pedophiles, whether they are the elite ones or not. People who coddle and support pedophiles are only prolonging the day when they are held accountable for their crimes. Nothing good comes from aiding and abetting a pedophile in the commission of his/her crimes, or in covering up their crimes.