TLDR: a test can indicate mental illness, but cannot prove abusiveness. Correlation is not causation. Resources will help kids more than any impossible attempt to prevent abuse.
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Speaking (again) as a human trafficking survivor, you cannot successfully or reliably prevent abuse with a test. It is not possible.
I spent most of my life being managed by people who were extremely abusive to me and they were smart. They were really smart. They knew exactly every way that the system would try to catch them out for what they were doing and they developed sophisticated strategies for getting around those systems, hiding their trafficking in plain sight. We could talk about their mental health for hours, but that will never produce any meaningful change or protection for other children. Because you know why?? If you gave my ex-handlers one of these "tests" they would figure out exactly what you were doing and research how to pass the test before taking it. They would lie. I watched them do it every day for multiple decades.
A test would not tell you anything reliable about their mental health or whether they should be around children.
I want to distinguish here between people who exploit children consciously an those who harm children unconsciously (without true malice or intention of harming the child). I have a lot of experience with both types people.
Let me reiterate. The most exploitative people would not get caught by a test. People who exploit children consciously are often very good at acting like they are the best person to leave your kid with. Because they want to motivate you to trust them with your kid.
The tests would "catch" people who have mental illnesses who may or may not ever turn out to abuse anyone, just because there are risk factors associated with certain highly stigmatized mental illnesses. But association is not causation. Just to illustrate one example, I have seen people with NPD and BPD take full responsibility for their behavior and stop doing things that they learned to understand were harmful to other people. In fact, one of the people who offered me the most support during the last years I spent on my handlers' leash was a person with BPD. She helped me through a lot of dark days and never harmed me. She even tried to help me access therapy. It didn't work, but she tried. We've lost touch over the years, but I still think about her and what a difference she made to my life even though she didn't fully understand my situation.
What I'm saying is that tests would "catch" people who may not be dangerous at all while leaving the most dangerous ones (the Epsteins, if you will) able to access children easily.
Stop blaming mental illness for abuse when it is not provable as the cause. Abuse is carried about all the time by people who are entirely neurotypical.
In reality, trying getting rid of mentally ill people actually results in more abuse, both to children and to the people you're trying to get weed out of parenting rights. While we waste time trying to cull mentally ill people from the gene pool (which again, will not actually prevent abuse), we are losing children.
Children like I was, who, having no clear escape or resources to turn to, may determine that the only way out is death. Kids need resources, not eugenics.
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