How does a family let a “friend”, a forty year old man, take such an interest in their 16 yr. old daughter? A lot of red flags were missed on this one. She told her friends he “creeped her out”. Is she a Stockholm syndrome kid? Did she, at her young age, think being nice to his advances would somehow put a stop to it? I’m not going to put all of this on her, it will come out. But if the family allowed this man to be near her, even to the point of driving her to cheerleading practice, then they were terribly naïve.
He was the best man at their wedding.
Is it possible that he was actually Hanna’s biological father and the mother knew it and thus allowed that closeness to occur???
Is that why he was such a close “family friend” and became chauffeur and go-fer for the family after her father went to live in Tennessee???