How do you just stop being like this all of a sudden? It's not like he was an older guy and thought the girl was older than what she was and it never happened again. Dude has been doing this shit a loooooong time. The craving may always be there, which is wild when you think about it.

Are sexual predators ever really redeemed and don't think or crave it, or is part of them recovering from it just them trying to suppress the cravings enough to get by from day to day?

Shit is scary
and extra fucking scary when someone is in such a position of power. A lot of people around him enabled this behavior too. The whole thing is sickening.