I feel for this little girl. I’m sure she was petrified. Children don’t always know how to react. I once had a friend’s father smack me when I was 6 because I got up to use the bathroom at his daughter’s sleepover. I never told a soul. I didn’t know how to process it. This is why parent’s need to WATCH THEIR CHILDREN. In this day and age you cannot let your young child out of your sight. Shame on that mother for being such a fool. Kids get kidnapped. She should have had her daughter right by her side. I also think this new law is stupid. I was a retail manager and had to physically remove kids from climbing up ladders I was using to put up posters and displays because once again, parents are woefully ignorant when it comes to minding their children. Would I get 4 years in jail for physically picking up a small child who is dangerously climbing up my ladder? Laws like this always cast a broad net where innocent people are jailed and common sense goes out the window.

Kaz, so you say it not has been your “experience” with “7-year old girls” to claim that they were “petrified” and want someone to “suffer” for the rest of HIS life? What are YOU doing to them to MOTIVATE them to say that to you, BUT THEY DON’T? That’s something I never expect to hear from a child either, unless one that obviously was traumatize like this innocent little child. This obviously never happened to her innocence before and that’s her individual way of coping with it.

It’s like waking up from having a nightmare about the boogeyman. You think the boogeyman is still there, your mouth opens to scream for your mommy, but you’re “petrified”. After it is all over, you want to kill the boogeyman.

Everyone, including adults, act differently when they are terrorized, like this innocent child. Shouldn’t you know that by now in your LONG life experiences? Yet the statements made by this child bothered YOU. You seem concerned about a pedophile having to “suffer’ for the rest of HIS life. You demonstrated it by taking out your angst on this innocent child and her family with your coarse remarks. You live in Borough Park and I KNOW you have a beard. Hmmm.

Perhaps you don’t mean any real harm and you just have a VERY SHARP tongue, or maybe you’re up to something that will invoke a REAL boogeyman, for adults, to come pay you a visit.

Hey kaz do you have a phone i can contact you?

First off kaz, thats my daughter your talking about. Peppe is her STEPfather get that straight. I work 7 days a week for my family so i couldnt be there for her. My daughter is in the talent and gifted program at her school hence her advanced vocabulary and train of thought. Maybe your parents never invested any time into you which clearly you just figured out what the word petrified means. Yes the perv will probably get 8 months, i would probably get 2 years max for breaking your jaw which everyone would applaud me for. Better yet i dont think a jury would convict me. But enough words from me. IF you have anything else to say i highly recommend you contact me personally.

I am appalled by these comments. We have commenters blaming the victim ( a 7-year old girl!), demonizing her for her comment about wanting the guy to suffer, blaming library security, and blaming the parents! The only ones to blame are the pedophile child-touching pervert himself and the revolving door prison system that lets rapists and pedophiles back into society after a slap on the wrist. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. I guarantee he is a repeat offender, and if he isn’t, after his joke maximum sentence of 8 months he will do it again, probably worse next time. People like this need to be removed from society.

@Kaz—hey a**hole–you seem to be defending pedophiles—could it be you’re the library perv perp the cops are looking for? Or are you just a perv in general? What country you originated from…the country of Pedophilia? This man’s family, in particular his baby, went through enough. If he wants to litigate, that’s his prerogative. I would rather have a couple of 22 caliber lead caps pump into your temple, perv. Stop trying to diminish and divert attention to what happen to this family….PERV.

I bet you 10 to 1 He is a liberal

They are right. Ina a lot of states if he got caught with pot in his own home he’d be in more trouble then touching a 7 yr old

“i want him to suffer until he dies”

chilling statement from a 7 year old…..

Can we keep him in jail in Nov 2012. If we can, would mean one less obamy vote!

I agree that was weird but he’s rubbing her feet on his beard, sniffing them and then sniffing her flip flops? Why didn’t she scream or kick him in the face? Kids today are taught all about strangers and how to yell and alert any adults that happen to be near by. It could be she was just confused about what was going on, but at least scream when a stranger touches you!!

Where was her supervision? I like my brother to be in my line of sight at all times & he’s 14! @Kaz: the world is a much sicker place these days (I’m not calling you old lol) but look at the last 9 year old boy that was allowed to walk home from day camp in a “safe” neighborhood (Leiby Kletzky). I don’t much agree with helicoptering, but it seems a necessary evil today.

Forgive me for being politically incorrect, but I actually support budget cuts for these libraries. The Internet is making libraries so useless now, which is why I haven’t been to one in years. People need to understand that everything you need to know is on the Internet, which has become so much easier to access, even on your phones.

@peppe – I’m on vacation until September if you want to go “perv hunting.” Im a father, and a public servant that works with children everyday and this sickens me.

Too bad the girl didnt have athletes foot or plantars warts some kind of contagious skin disease he could have gotten from doing that justice would have been served and it would have taught him never to do that again! I hate hearing about things like this now this poor kid will always be scared.