I HATE the use of pedophiles and rapist as story elements to make the story move. I HATE rapist and pedophiles, they figuratively make my blood boil, but it seems like such a cop-out to just stick one of the two in your story as a villain.
oh, not enough shock value in the story? show some human garbage or a monster raping people.
need the audience to know they have to hate a villain? don't write a good story for your villain, just make them an unrepentant pedo rapist.
fuck, man. might as well have just stuck a swastika on the noblemen's back or a sign that says hate this guy, not the protag.