Airline sex discrimination seating controversy

The part I find worst is the comment saying that it's still alright because, statistically, "more sex offenders are male".

If that's a valid judgement call, surely the fact that most child sex offenders are relatives/acquaintances of the victim rather than strangers means it's safer to sit the child away from their family and friends? I get slightly annoyed by these misuses of statistics.

I guess I wouldn't complain about the policy to attempt to do this when initially filling seats but to have a forced policy is taking it too far. Especially when it causes cases like the man who was not allowed to sit next to his pregnant wife because of it.