Their reactions would probably have been different, if the offense was more serious. By more serious, I am not saying that what he did wasn’t serious.
He was counseled by his father as to the path he was on, if he persisted in his sin, and he appeared to have repented and quit doing that.
For me, that’s the issue. Many people, too many people, have sexual desires they should not have, but they don’t act on them. By all reckoning, he has appeared to quit acting on them.
There needs to be some consideration for that he simply needed to mature.
So a 14yr old male fondling the vagina of his FOUR YEAR OLD SISTER isn’t ‘serious’?
What, precisly, do you consider ‘serious’?
Read his statement. It mentions nothing about the damage he did to his victims, only gratefulness that he didn’t ruin his own future. Still, after over a decade, he’s not concerned about his very own sisters.
Pedos seldom quit acting on their impulses forever. Their recovery statistics are similar to those of meth or heroin addicts.
Anna better install in house video in every room in every angle. And even then she’ll never be able to be sure he hasn’t diddled his daughters.
“Their reactions would probably have been different, if the offense was more serious.”
Like what? Murder?
Jonty, I think it was more than just a need to mature. I just asked my husband if, at 14, he would have ever considered molesting his sister. He gave me a horrified look and asked if I’d lost my mind.
I think getting mixed-up in the Gothard cult helped bring it on.