The witch-hunt for "pedophiles" has inspired overeager vigilantes to try to catch some — and if they don't find real ones, they make false accusations.

If an adult and a real 15-year-old agree to meet in a cafe, and if they later have sex, that doesn't mean anyone did anything wrong. That 15-year-old is clearly not being coerced or pressured. People should let them alone.

Remember the British school girl who ran away to France with her teacher, and later said, when he was on trial for "abducting" her, that she had asked him to run away with her so they could have some last time together?

That prosecution represented an attempt to impose a prejudice on reality. These vigilantes are motivated by the same prejudice.