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AG. I need some support of some kind. I just found out possibly the most horrible news that I've ever received. Happy ******** holidays. Don't read this if you're younger, or just can't handle cruelty to children. It's a mature subject. I don't want to scare anyone..
So. I went to HS and Middle School. I've known this girl for 7 years. We were never friends, but we knew each other. Well, tonight on the 10 o clock news, a special aired about a child rapist in missouri. This man had been raping his daughter and recording it from the age of 10 to the age of 17 when she more or less ran away. She turned the tape in about a week ago to get her dad convicted. I looked that girl in the face for 7 years. I talked to her in the halls, and at every HS football game. How do you know someone for 7 years without getting to know them? How do you not see something so monumental destroying someone? How do you.. How do you ******** miss something like that. I've always been able to read faces, and i always knew she was unhappy about something. But we were teenagers. We were all unhappy about everything, all the time.. How did i miss it? She was getting raped before I knew what rape was..
so anyway. i need to hear something that will make me feel less like the shittiest person alive for not knowing that this was going on.
So. I went to HS and Middle School. I've known this girl for 7 years. We were never friends, but we knew each other. Well, tonight on the 10 o clock news, a special aired about a child rapist in missouri. This man had been raping his daughter and recording it from the age of 10 to the age of 17 when she more or less ran away. She turned the tape in about a week ago to get her dad convicted. I looked that girl in the face for 7 years. I talked to her in the halls, and at every HS football game. How do you know someone for 7 years without getting to know them? How do you not see something so monumental destroying someone? How do you.. How do you ******** miss something like that. I've always been able to read faces, and i always knew she was unhappy about something. But we were teenagers. We were all unhappy about everything, all the time.. How did i miss it? She was getting raped before I knew what rape was..
so anyway. i need to hear something that will make me feel less like the shittiest person alive for not knowing that this was going on.
I don't know what that exact situation is like, but I know it must be horrible. I'm kind of like you were I can tell how people are feeling, or I try to anyway. It comes with the whole people watching thing I guess (oo..I'm creepy). But sometimes when there's something that's that dark, they don't let anything out about it. They get used to hiding it well, so don't put yourself down for this. You were young at the time and usually there's so many things going on at once you don't pay attention to just one of them. She might not have wanted this to get out until she was old enough to do something for herself, and had it gotten out earlier maybe she was afraid that if it did, she'd get hurt by her father in the process. Those are the kind of things you need to think about. I hope that either way things work out. Being there's evidence his a** will sit in jail for a long time, but I hope that she'll be alright as a person. Don't feel so bad, there was probably nothing you could have done at the time to prevent it. A grown man against teenage girls? The outcome would be the man winning most of the time. So, if anything, I say be happy that this is out now when she's more capable of doing something for herself. And if anything, if you can contact her, maybe wish her the best but stay off that subject.
