My neighbour is a convicted paedophile

I understand how upset you are, its awful - similar happened at our old house - although we didnt know him as well before. It was a probably an over reaction but if I saw him leaving I'd hold back as I couldn't bear the thought of him looking at DD, thankfully he worked shifts though so it was a rare occurrence.

That said, I don't think there's anything to be gained by approaching him, just avoid and ignore him he'll know what's happened. I did have a discrete word with another neighbor as she often had her grandchildren visit and she took the same approach. As far as Im aware he's still at the same house and everyone avoids him. He's not worth anyone's time.

It’s great you know. Just make sure your children have no contact with him. Stop being friendly and blank him.

The reality is that they are absolutely EVERYWHERE. 1 in 6 children are sexually abused. If your children have 6 friends, it’s quite likely that one of them is or will be abused, probably by someone quite close to them, who your child will know too. I have 2 convicted paedophiles just in my immediate family (who we obviously are NC with).

You need to learn to trust your gut and teach your children to trust theirs. No need to ever be polite with anyone who gives you a funny feeling. But you’ve gotten off easy here because you know about this one and you can give him a swerve.

OP, I am absolutely with you - next time you see him, tell him to stay away from you and your family, never speak to or approach your children or any local children (and if you like, you can add that he makes you sick). There has been a serious problem in the last few years with men convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material getting non-custodial sentences, as though they aren't a massive risk to children https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/eight-in-10-convicted-in-uk-over-child-abuse-images-avoid-prison-nca-says

He should be ostracised, and everyone should know he is a clear threat to children - I would absolutely tell other parents in the street who are unaware. You aren't doing anything "unfair" to him by making sure all children in your immediate sphere are safe; there may well be paedophiles in every street in the UK (as many other posters have asserted), but you can make sure no one ever asks this nice-seeming man to watch their child for an hour while they pop out. Imagine if you didn't know and you let him take your child for an ice cream, or a dog walk, or something similar.

No comparison as the dogs who kill/maim children are usually shot dead.

a man might get away with 18 months..if he's actually even caught in the first place

I think OP means they felt sorry for him because his wife left, they did not know then the reason why she had left. I doubt they took him out knowing he was a paedophile

Move to where?

Somewhere that 100% guarantees there are no paedophiles in the area?

Unfortunately, this all constitutes harassment.

This person's life has imploded, leave him to his misery.

Really? She can be vigilant without inviting vigilante action.

There's hundreds arrested every month in the UK for online offences.

We couldn't build enough prisons if we tried.

Please see both my responses to the other person.

That’s not what you pulled me up on though. You said have I learned nothing from the inciting violence / asylum convictions.

and you know it.

This is madness. There are no guarantees the OP wouldn't relocate next to a similar individual.

Has he been in prison? When did this happen? Just wondering why he’s lost his job only now.

I was about to say this. I wish people would stop using the term child pornography.

But OP, all you can do is avoid him, and keep your children away from him.

Move. I would, as soon I was able.
If you must say something, calmy tell him you know what he is and will have nothing further to do with him. No vigilante stuff.

Which would be a very immature and irresponsible thing to do. What he has done is utterly vile and of course children need to be protected from him. But encouraging hatred and vigilantes won’t help anyone. Have you seen the news when other people have done similar things?
You could also possibly be charged yourself.
As vile as it is, there are abusers living amongst us. Pushing people underground and to move to areas where they will not be known does nothing to reduce risk.

I think you just need to hugely vigilant until he leaves and report anything at all suspicious (hanging around where whildren are, for example) to the police.

Vigilantism is a crime. If he’s served his sentence and been released, he has to live somewhere.

They didn’t know.

Edited to say I think I misread your post.

The thing that annoys me most about this and similar cases is that he should be in prison.

Say nothing, do nothing, completely ostracise him and hopefully if enough of you do that he will leave of his own accord.

It was obviously in the local press.

Just tell him you won't be talking to him anymore and why.

That's all you can do.

And PP are correct, they're everywhere and forcing people out of communities makes them go underground and that makes them more dangerous.

Unfortunately some posters are more concerned with waving the pitchfork rather than considering the consequences that their own actions could have. Happens every single time on these posts.