(Regarding his parents’ painful realization that their son was a pedophile who hadn’t finished college, he observes, “For a Jewish family, you don’t know which is worse.”) He emphatically states that he understands the law and that he has never molested a child. He’s bright, friendly and breezily self-deprecating. Spencer is in his early 30s now, with neatly coiffed brown hair and sharp features. “Most had not the slightest idea how to deal with someone like me,” he says. Confiding his attraction nearly always led to suspicious inquiries about whether he had molested children, and little help when he answered no. A youth ADHD specialist wanted to medicate him. When he shared his attraction to boys with one therapist, she barked: “You can’t do that.” Another therapist suggested getting Spencer into a sex-offender treatment program. Over the next 10 years, though, the people Spencer and his family thought could help almost always regarded him as a criminal even though the only crime he had committed was a thought crime. They were alarmed and insisted on getting him help. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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