If you know what you're doing, and can hold down the urge to throw-up/kill the SOB long enough, child molesters are easy to interrogate.
You should hear some of the stuff they come up with to justify their actions, though. I've seen a lot of things in my time, but the only time I have thrown-up and not been ill, was after a successful 30 minute interrogation of a child molester. Holy Ghost. I yacked for so long, I wound up drinking water just to have something to throw-up.
The following probably violates most of the Constituition, but hey, it's me.
One of the lower tricks used by a defense attorney defending a child molester, is to get the molested child up on the stand. Usually, just the threat of having their abused baby up on the witness stand is enough to make the parents beg the DA to offer a plea bargain.
When I was a newbie, we had a child molester wind up getting caught in our County. The week before the trial, the Sheriff gave me an order to find a motorcycle gang and ticket them for something--preferably multiple tickets. And get a contact address.
Well, I did. Got back to the SO, and the Sheriff called the riders and told them that if they showed up and monitored Court on a certain day, he'd tear up the tickets. They weren't real happy, but they agreed.
Well, that day came, and they showed up. Beards, leather-and-denim, earrings, the whole nine yards. The Sheriff leads them into the Courtroom and very ceremoniously seats them behind where the defense will be sitting.
They were pretty hacked-off about the whole thing--until the Court Clerk read the offense that was being tried.
They spent the next two hours popping their knuckles and baring their teeth at the defendant. Poor guy was so rattled, he changed his plea to 'Guilty' before the trial really got off the ground.
LawDog
[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited August 04, 2000).]