Vendetta1 said:

Ya, guess I should had read all the replies before posting my own...knowing about child abuse and not reporting it makes me feel rather ill...

JustErin said:

And if that happened in this case, it'd certainly be an issue for anyone.

ernestsewell said:

At the very least, those children in those pictures you saw were being abused. And on the flipside of that, it was very possible that he was molesting children while he was dating you.

And you saying earlier to me that there was no child to help is utter bullshit.

Vendetta1 said:

Ya, I agree. What about the kids in those pics? One arrest could have led to another and another...and who knows a whole internet child porn ring could have been brought down with just one phone call.

JustErin said:

It's all what ifs at this point. No need to crucify Ernerst. Really.

Vendetta1 said:

It scares me to think he was fucking w/ kids when he was dating me. Looking back, I'm not sure he had the time or place to accomplish that. I pretty much knew where he was at during any given time. But I agree that anything is possible.

Please remember, I'm not excusing anything here. This time period is 13 years ago. Have there been children since I was there? Well at least once we know of yes, as noted in my original post. To my knowledge, there were no children he was molesting at the time I knew him in 1997. Yes, there's the argument that perhaps me calling the cops would have stopped him from subsequently molesting children, but think of this. He was incarcerated in 2005 for about 15 months, on two charges, and released in 2006. Even if I did get him put in jail for the porn ALONE, he would have been there long. The fucking law caught him doing something with an actual child, and jailed him for not even 18 months. I didn't report him because, aside from the obvious part of the pornography, I didn't see him or know of him physically abusing a child at that point.

Hindsight is a bitch, and perhaps I should have just called the police as soon as I found out, and took the risk while I was still there. However, 13 years later, I cannot change that unfortunately. I can only hope that in the few years until he was caught again, that he didn't fuck w/ a child.

I agree with the others in the thread that drug users seem to get a harsher time of things than child molesters. It's the bitch of the law. I also can't imagine a repeat child offender being jailed for only 14 or 15 months after doing it over and over. The family member I called the cops was - that was his first offense and had a longer sentence than that (and had two counts against him - lewd molestations, and sodomy).

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I'm not crucifying anyone...but just knowing of an even small link to child porn should be a reason to react, imo.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

In defense of Vendetta, I don't think she's crucifying me. She's having a real reaction to the situation as she sees it; anyone would do the same - meaning they'd have a strong reaction. If I'd not have these two personal interactions w/ child molesters, ,I'd probably have a different view on things as well. Everyone's experience in life is different, and that forms their opinions on things. I fully understand she, and others, are saying "You should have called the police for the porn alone!" But after all this time...shoulda coulda woulda. Unfortunately, what's done is done. It was all very dangerous w/ this guy, and I wasn't going to put myself in a situation that I might not have made it out of alive.

JustErin said:

I agree. People aren't perfect nor do they make all the right choices 100 percent of the time. He has expressed regret and really, what's done is done.

ernestsewell said:

I really don't need your defense and Richard saying. I am crucifying you is complete and utter bullshit, too.

I am also failing to see the dangerous part to you but I am going to stop responding to this thread because it pisses me off more than any other thread I've read here.

Vendetta1 said:

That's because I'm not going to delve into the whole story, but suffice it to say the guy was threatening.

ernestsewell said:

If you're going to tell the world that you dated a paedophile, and made back-ups of their child porn collection, you may as well tell the whole story. It surely can't get any worse.

GirlBrother said:

I agree with this

Genesia said:

Good point

I can't imagine..

I don't know what I'd do.

GirlBrother said:

Do not misquote me on this. I said I made a few disk copies because I had one plan to tell the police where they were in the house so he couldn't hide any proof of bad activity.

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Let me tell you what my landlady and good friend did when I lived on Belle Plaine & Richmond Ave in Chicago. We found out by searching the Internet that a child molester was living within a block of the school my boys and her daughter went to. We took action. I don't play when it comes to this shit because my nieces and my nephew were molested by their own fucking grandfather and he never served a day in (upstanding citizen of the community) jail.

We posted signs in the neighborhood of his profile. YES! I believe everyone should know. I also have studied the stats and there are hardly any who are truly rehabilitated. Why was he living so close to a school? Because his wife lived there and let him come home. We knew he had no children, and when we saw him on his porch with a little girl by the hand we called the cops. Guess what???? They had no idea he was a convicted molester. And the little girl was just a "neighbor."

He threatened my landlady and even came and pissed in public on her garage door. She nor I gave a fuck. I will never be one of those people who sit by and say, "I don't want to get involved!" What if it was YOUR child????

noimageatall said:

I'm not one of those either. The person I mentioned earlier in the thread, that was a family member molesting my stepbrother for 10 years and I called the cops on them? Yeah, that was my own father.

ernestsewell said:

How long did you know that he was molesting your stepbrother? Not accusatory...just curious. This is one crime that I have no stomach for. Anyone who harms a child should be executed ASAP. I am a pacifist yet I feel no sympathy for those who hurt children. They are innocent and helpless and the ones who prey on them should die a slow, painful death.

noimageatall said:

Within a few days of finding out, I had called an 800 number I saw in an Amy Grant album, which was 1.800-4-a-Child. They directed me to DHS. Within a week's time, DHS was calling me, saying they were going to the house to interview my stepbrother. A cop was there, and we all went to the police station. One by one, the cops called my stepmother, brought her down and told her what was going on, then called my dad and told him something different (as not to arouse his suspicion), and arrested him.

So within a week of my stepbrother telling me, it was all over. I acted quickly.

noimageatall said:

Ummm, a slow painful death isn't executing them ASAP . . .

I think I'd Thank God he's my ex and keep any and all children I could away from his sick ass.

that must be the worst to have to read. I'm glad you got away from him ernest, I'm sorry for those that he hurt.

SUPRMAN said:

Yes it is if you kill them slowly over a period of about two days as soon as you find out they did it.

Genesia said:

exactly, thank you!

bluesbaby said:

I think a few people may have got the wrong impression of me from this post.

I'm not that simple a person