pedophile

[ ped-uh-fahylor, especially British, pee-duh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Psychiatry.

First recorded in 1950–55; pedo- ¹ + -phile, or directly from Greek paidóphilos “loving children”

He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.

The Vatican says it is doing everything it can to take pedophile priests out of circulation.

ROME, Italy — Roderick MacDonald has been proven to be the worst kind of pedophile there is—an apologetic serial offender.

In court, Kimberlin was both outraged at the “pedophile” claims and slippery about whether they were defamatory.

Akbar took one last opportunity to stand and tell Kimberlin that he was a pedophile.

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