If the molester asks forgiveness AND stops molessing children, yes. He also needs to turn himself in to the authorities so they will deal with it from the law of the land side.
Matt is not talking about child molesting, there is a deeper meaning that you must dig out. Never make a doctrine out of a sentense lifted out of a paragraph...ever.
Have You ever speeded before or during Your christian life? I mean driving too fast. Have You turned Yourself in for that? Well would You if it would kill You? If the threshhold is made way too high sinners will not turn to Christ because that means deathrow for them, so they continue in their sins, especially if they belong to a Cruel cult where if You abandon the cult means that the rest of the cultmembers finishes You off one way or another. Actually You should offer to stand guard around newborn christians houses and especially if they are afraid of cults.
Believe me I have argued with God on this topic, I would feel slightly uncomfortable with childmolesters sitting in the same church as me and getting saved, and then turning away from their sins. but I would feel even worse if they would not, meaning that they would continue molesting kids. When I read my bible I do not see that Saul went to some prison guard immediatedly after He got saved and confessed that He had killed christians and begged to get locked up. I suppose God has a plan for every person. He had for Saul that became Paul. I hope we listen to and obey God In situations when we do not know what to do rather that listen to other peoples advise based on fear. We really need to consider what kind of churches we are. Are we antisinner, antihuman and unfriendly or how are we supposed to let Jesus shine through us. If we say Yes they can get saved but afterwards they have to take the deathpenalty then we are making ourselves their judge and God said judge not lest yourselves be judged. If we judge with deathpenalty that also makes us a killer and the bible says thou shalt not kill. However a huge debt a molester certainly owes to a lot or at least on of child. Somehow that needs to be dealt with but it might not ever be fair, the best is though that the molester giving His life to God and becoming His servant. It spares other children. God sure used Paul to do a lot of hard work. It was better for the christians to have a Paul than a Saul after all.The subject is molestation, not speeding. In another post in this thread, I gave scripture for restitution so your argument is with God.