For every Denis Ferguson (for example, meaning the ones you 'know' about), there would probably be 10 that you DON'T know about. I would say that because of what recently happened, that the rumor mill is working triple time atm and that there is no truth in it at all. Don't forget too that rarely do paedophiles snatch kids of the street and abuse them (in which case it would be near impossible to know about them because they could literally be anyone and the chance of a child getting snatched is extremely low) - they are more likely to form a relationship and build trust with the child before abusing them, so she would still be safe riding her bike to school the few times that she does do it. The current law states they cannot live within 400m of a school, so it would be extremely unlikely that if this were a convicted paedophile, that they would be allowed to live only a few houses away from a school