i accidentally became close friends with a pedophile and i don’t know how to cope with it

as the title says + excuse formatting, i’m on mobile i, M21, started working with X, M28, a few months ago and we only recently became friends. however, since we became friends, we have gotten extremely close, spending multiple days a week together just hanging out, watching shows, going out, etc. i have recently (as in, TODAY) found out he is a self-admitted pedophile, viewing sexual encounters between children and adults as the same as consensual sex between adults. he has been arrested on multiple occasions for sexual offenses, one of which was indecent exposure. he apparently got fired from a previous job because he was groping one of his coworkers. i’m absolutely sick to my stomach just writing this. i feel dizzy, like i’m on water. i keep feeling like the world is swaying back and forth. i’m terrified to go in to work tomorrow, as we’re scheduled together. we were actually supposed to hang out today, but i cancelled last minute because of fucking course i did after finding that out. i don’t even know why i’m writing this… i just would really appreciate some kind words. i’ve already spoken to my boss about it, so i’m hopeful something will come of this and he’ll be fired. i just wanted to get this absolute anchor off my chest. thank you for reading if you got this far.