- Dołączono
- 29 Sty 2016
Actually, @norrington, I could use your perspective on something. I'm pretty sure I found Sarah's parents with the dox that was posted earlier, and I noticed her dad's not registered as a sex offender in his area. You mentioned the mom knows about the abuse; did Sarah indicate it was never reported?
They made a number of posts over the years about their mom being homophobic/racist, fond of needless shouting, and at one point hired a private investigator to go "hunt them down" after they "ran away." I distinctly remember the screencap of the texts their Mom sent during that episode, and it all came across as pretty legit at the time (I do tend to look at this shit with an at least somewhat skeptical eye, believe it or not).
Anyway, their mom had a very 'NO. WIRE. HANGERS.' vibe to them in those texts, if you know what I mean? Like not a holy-shit-where's-my-kid vibe, not a what-the-fuck-have-you-done-you-shitbird vibe (like a parent might do if the kid had bolted after stealing a parent's hideaway cash stash?). Like, We'll-eat-you-up-we-love-you-so type stuff, but not in the Where the Wild Things Are kinda tone, but in the like, end-of-that-AltJ-song-about-a-serial-murderer vibe. Not to overstate it; it's just a feeling I got. I can't prove shit.
I also remember way more vaguely and not-positively at all that they did have interactions with a mom's-boyfriend and/or stepdad, but don't take my word on that because it's very possible I'm mixing them up with someone else.
Even assuming I am remembering correctly about the parents not being together, them getting a divorce doesn't guarantee a kid would come forward about something like that; abusers are always careful to cover their asses, after all, especially when alimony/child support payments are on the line. And it's not hard for an abuser to intimidate their victim into keeping their mouth shut and convincing the kid that the court would never take them away from him.
TL;DR - Basically, their mom never struck me as the kind of mom you'd disclose that kind of shit to, and that's even if most kids were likely to 'fess up about that sort of thing when the abuser still holds a position of some authority in their life, which they aren't.
EDIT: syntax/grammar corrections for clarity