child molester vs deviant

child molester and deviant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
child molester	Yes	No	No	No
deviant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, deviant is a hypernym of child molester; that is, deviant is a word with a broader meaning than child molester:

child molester: a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
deviant: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

Other hypernyms of child molester include degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert.

child molester (noun)	deviant (noun)
a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner	a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

child molester (adjective)	deviant (adjective)
	markedly different from an accepted norm