Bingo!
Instead, dad essentially contracted out the solution; and perhaps created a father-son fracture that could last this lifetime.
Exactly!
Dad has been judge, jury and executioner of his and his sons “father/son” relationship.
This is dumb beyond belief.
As another freeper said on this thread, he should have held turning him in to the cops over his head and demanded clinical therapy and imposed a litany of other common sense disciplines on him.
You do not “shake” being branded a “sex offender”. It’s a life sentence.