Another bad guy off the streets?

Monroe County's finest are at it again, keeping the community safe for the rest of us. This time, they rousted a guy in Luna Pier who clearly was a potential child molester. Seems the fortyish man was talking to young kids, giving them candy, handing out Barbie dolls and otherwise entertaining the children. Cops saw this aberrant behavior and decided to arrest him, apparently because he had a prior police record. The guys lawyer, however, says the man has the mind of a 9-year-old and naturally would be palling around with other kids his "age." Nonetheless, when the cops searched the guys apartment, they found 50 pounds of candy and about 100 photos of young girls. Not nasty photos of young girls -- just pictures of young girls.
Now this guy with the 9-year-old brain is in jail with a bunch of bad grownups. Only in America will our paranoia allow us to rationalize the way we treat the developmentally disabled.
Oh for the good old days when we used to lock them all up and throw away the key.