SL&AM
Cheer Parent
- May 13, 2014
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My heart broke when that father shook his 12 y/o daughter and said "we've already lost your mother, what would I do if I lost you?"
The scary is that these are responsible parents who have taught their kids the dangers of social media and the internet, but the kids STILL don't listen.
I am really not proud to say that, but a member of my extended family is a sex offender. He is getting out of prison/therapy/whatever you name it in January. He is older than me. Makes me wonder sometimes if he did something to me or my sister and we were just too young to remember... He did what he is guilty of on his girlfriend's children and he watched child pornography for freaking 15 years!!! I won't tell you what was on that, I want to puke everytime I think about it. It was such a shock.
No need to say he doesn't have a girlfriend anymore. I don't believe that some kind of therapy can change ANYTHING for a pedophile. So I really wonder what will happen when he gets out. Will he be the kind of guy that tries what you saw on the video? Will he hide who he is so he can meet single mothers?
As a coach and a teacher (sub, but still), I am terrified. If I could, I would yell to whoever listens that he lives there and he did that. But with Canadian laws, I'd probably end up with a lawsuit. Yet if something happens again, I'll feel somehow responsible, even though I will not (and clearly don't want to) see him again.
Anyway, I don't know if it is bad for me to talk about it, but I need to. Our family feels so much shame...
His crimes are not your crimes or your families crimes. If I were held accountable for a few of my family members...ick!
That being said, is there a way to anonymously put the info out there? Or does Canada have any sort of database set up to check for this stuff?