For sure screaming at someone and berating them as a pedophile is wrong but on the flip side maybe he is a truly creepy character.

OP i hope you shushed her for yelling in a library.

There is no flip side. Not defending pedophiles but no one thinks twice about the murderers that are right there out in the open.

You can never be too careful when it comes to your babies.

Erm....OP, maybe you should have gone for the username "notalibrarypaedo" instead. Good luck with that.

Uh, I'm pretty sure she's aware of that.

Maybe she wasn't aware of that. OP might not have been behind an official looking desk when he was helping the little girl. If some random stranger started talking to my daughter, I might be a bit alarmed also. Although I would handle it better than the mother did.

Honestly, I'm just glad a parent still takes their child to the library.

She was probably off flirting with some guy

It's really sad that people can't just talk to kids like a regular person without being accused of being a pedophile.

And by 'people' you meant 'guys', right?

Yeah, well most pedophiles are guys, but anyway I would be watching just as closely if it were a woman spending a little too much time with a young boy.

"cos they rapin everybody up in here" long live Antoine Dobson. and autotune.

Could just as easily be a woman and a young girl as well.

It could just be the way OP looks, it's probable that an attractive man would be less likely to be accused of pedophilia than an unattractive one so you can't blame him for looking a certain way...

Or the way he leers at the little girls and offers them candy because "they looked hungry" OP is Aqualung!!

Or it could be that you and all mothers with such paranoia watch too much damn Lifetime.

I'm pretty sure Buddy is a guy.

I think it's safe to assume he wasn't offering candy, but help to a book

While it may well be paranoia you also have to look at how many kids are raped, kidnapped or killed a year so while yes it was wrong to jump to conclusions she at least cares about her child.

But how many kids were raped/killed in a library? And I love aqualung!!!

How many is too many??

#47 that's the exact reason we get stories about children or elderly needing help and not getting it. No ****** wants to get accused or sued. Quite frankly to let your five year old wander out of sight is atrocious and the mother likely over reacted because secretly, she knew that. But FYL OP it really does make you want to bang people's heads against something and see if that knocks some sort of sense into society.

Lulzzz I love that name "sex pest", I can't stop laughing.

Sex pest= pedo.

Thanks, but we knew that

So "librarypedo" can have his way with her?

Yea obviously cuz he's just gets off when kids ask him where certain books are...

(to the tune of Aqualung) Sitting in the library stacks.... Waiting for the girls he can attack!

Took the words right out of my mouth. People tend to agree that parents need to be less crazy but not enough people point out the negative affects this behaviour has on the children these parents are actually trying to protect. Crazy parents really need to realise that in trying too hard to protect their kids they actually risk harming them themselves.

It's not entirely the parents fault... Some of the blame lies with inept policing/governing considering "stranger danger" and other such slogans intended to inform the populace created a generation of mistrust.

Where I'm from Stranger Danger is more about teaching kids how to be safe around strangers rather than avoiding them altogether. Besides, parents can just ignore all the over-the-top crap. I dunno about you but I will base my parenting on my individual child and circumstances, not on some misused statistics.

Well said. If the person was a murderer then nothing would be sais