An adult who is sexually attracted to children

Usage examples of paedophile.

But Margolies had proved himself quickly, handling a paedophile inquiry with dedication and tact.

Social workers rated only a rung or two above paedophiles on the Farmer's moral stepladder.

NCIS dealt with counterfeiting, money-laundering, organised drug and vehicle crime, and, if Rebus remembered correctly, paedophile gangs.

The placards detailed child-killers and paedophiles and their victims.

Meantime, there were fresh news reports of paedophiles being released from prison.

Unless, of course, the viewer was the sort of paedophile who had taken them.

He'd never shown any signs of being a paedophile when he was courting my mother.

With a flurry of publicity about paedophiles and neo-Nazis and bomb-makers, the police had shut down and prosecuted any net service provider who could be shown to have passed on any of the material that fell outside the provisions of the Act.

Mine, too, I supposed, when I had to sit and listen to rapists, paedophiles and murderers trying to talk their way out of jail, sit there reading their lies and knowing that in fact they were cold-blooded killers, molesters and defilers.

The Tinder Box portrays immigrant Irish tinkers as hate figures in a wealthy Hampshire village, but a similar hatred is demonstrated against a convicted paedophile in a sink estate in Acid Row.