From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchild molesterˈchild moˌlester noun [countable] someone who harms children by touching them in a sexual way, or trying to have sex with them —child molesting noun [uncountable]
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child molester• Brian Brown, 57, claims he had to share a room with a murderer, a rapist and a child molester.• They maintain their father threatened to kill his sons to stop them from exposing him as a child molester.• Probably a child molester, probably couldn't get it up for anything normal.• More recently, Lychner began a campaign to pay for the voluntary castration of paroled child molester Larry Don McQuay.