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Old Sun Dec 02, 2007, 04:31pm
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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap
Their children are going to have some deep scars because their parents did not protect them.
I know it. That's what's so appalling. In this day and age for parents to look away from something like this for any reason at all is beyond comprehension. Although in fairness to parents everywhere, I will say that it was a family who finally turned him in when their daughter came to them and told what was happening. But they took a lot of heat for getting the program shut down. As I remember it, some parents even accused the whistle-blowers of being jealous because the guy hadn't approached their daughter, and so they wanted to punish him for not favoring her. It was just amazing to me that any mother could be so blind to the realities of the long term effects of this kind of abuse.
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