I think this will send all pedophiles celebrity or not a very clear message.
It's not at all the case that everyone who's committed a statutory rape is a pedophile; I'd be wary of conflating those concepts so lightly.
I just said that I don't think the U.S. is doing this for the right reasons. That's it.
This would be a better argument if there were a case to be made that his trial and conviction had involved some demonstrable miscarriage of justice. Or if there were grounds for using him as an illustration of some systematic inequality, where people from some identifiable group he belongs to are routinely harshly punished for this particular crime, compared to members of other groups who routinely get only a wrist-slap for it. But it doesn't seem like either of those is the case.
I assume the reason why so many states and municipalities require rape charges to proceed to trial, even when the victim wishes to drop them, is because this is a crime type where victims so often decide to drop charges out of shame or fear, thus leaving the offender free to go out and victimize others again and again. Obviously you're going to have individual cases where a rapist
doesn't proceed to do that, but that's not a sound argument for allowing the justice system to make exceptions in how it applies the law.
It may or may not be true that there are (morally, not legally, speaking) certain less-than-worthy motivations playing some role from law enforcement's end here, but even
if that's the case, I can't see where that would justify actively protesting their actions--because at that point you inevitably
would be actively seeking to protect him, and thus implying he doesn't deserve any tangible punishment. Cynically put, when it comes down to it, one more reason not to Do Bad Things is because if you do and get caught, you'll only be handing people who might well have ethically questionable designs against you all the ammo they need to put you right where they want you. As well as putting people who might otherwise have been sympathetic to you in a position where they'd have to endorse your getting a free pass, one they (hopefully) would never seek for themselves or others, in order to help you out.