Another person with personal, professional expeiences with pedos and their victims. While I have not exchanged conversation with Jade, I am more than passing familiar with her history and baggage.
There are times when you can do damn-all little to keep pedos from getting their jollies, such as observing/photographing children in public places. Some semi-public places such as malls have rules against picture-taking that are probably more the result of paranoid parents' fears than actual merchandising/marketing concerns but if you read the policies they are based on the former.
There are significant constraints that bind the hands of the judiciary, but within those limits there are restrictions on the geographical bounds that can be placed on pedos who are under court order (probation and/or parole). While few of those involve GPS-based monitoring units (expensive and worthless except for documenting the violation), documentation of violations based on photographic evidence can be turned over to the Community Corrections officers. Since most of these pedos are on a sex offender database that has a picture, you can compare your mug shot against the one in the database to be sure you have a perv and not an innocent nature photographer.
And if the specific P&P Officer is not too concerned with pictures of someone on their caseload violating a condition of release, there is always the next step of a meeting with the supervisor. Should that not work one might look to see if the local birdcage liner has any interest in a human interst story.
But getting back to "dealing with them" -- unless you know the rules and the law there is not much you can do to restrict their less overt behavior no matter how ewww-y it seems to you. These people are sick in a way that pretty much cannot be "cured". The best you can do is keep your eyes and mind open to the fact that this can happen to your kid.
And by the way - the majority of the worst pervs are NOT strangers cruising in vans trying to hand out candy or get your kid to help look for a lost puppy. They are folks you know and may even have coming into your home on a regular basis, if not living there already. Forget teaching "Stranger Danger" - although not a bad concept in and of itself. Instead, teach that NOBODY but Mommy or Daddy gets to touch any part of you that your bathing suit would cover, unless Mommy or Daddy says it's OK. (That way medical folks get to care for your kid, but not without permission.) The same goes for touching anybody else - NEVER any part of the body their bathing suit would cover.
Now - for you folks out there with kids under 12 or so. Want a real nightmare? Hire me, or Strings, or Grandpa Shooter to go get your kids to break every single rule you ever taught your kid about strangers with candy and puppydogs. We should be able to get them across the playground and into the van in under 5 minutes!
stay safe.
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