Comment by lukan

It is not normal adult behavior and he likely should have had therapy.

But it is not necessarily pedophilia. Because that means wanting to have sex with children.

The explanation I heard is he wanted to be close to children to compensate for his own lack of innocent childhood. Children don't do sexual intercourse. Now if he was a child in his mind, then I as a parent would surely not have gave my children to his care, but this is still something very different from child molesting.