10-09-2014, 08:10 AM
I think blueberry's statement that molesters change the molested children's lives is fair. It's not the expected course of events for a person's introduction to sexual contact to occur as a child at the hands of an uncle or parents' dear friend (or any adult) molesting them and imploring them not to say anything. It doesn't necessarily ruin the child's life, though. Something like that could have a lifelong negative impact on some kids and a lesser impact on others -- no argument there.
In the case of the relative Collins molested, it did in fact change her life. She told someone around 25 years ago and the confirmed molestation had enough of a negative impact on her to write an anonymous letter of warning to his wife 15 years ago. She's been cooperating in the police investigations for years without going public. To suggest that she must be a weak baggage-carrier who's somehow doing wrong by her molester -- simply because Collins wasn't publicly outed or prosecuted within 30 to 40 years of molesting her and because your personal experiences and reactions to molestation are different than her's -- is more presumptuous and short-sighted to me than suggesting that her life must have been changed by the molestation, user.
And, yeah, I agree that the nasty divorce settlement battle is likely what spun Collins' confession into the public realm at this time. His wife may well be a huge vindictive bitch who's enjoying watching him squirm and lose his career. You feel sorry, to some degree, for the spot he's in. I don't; I think he's lucky to have avoided being outed, jailed, and required to register as a sex offender for so long. I hope he didn't molest more than the three girls to which he's confessed, but I won't be surprised if he did.
IDK, user. Maybe you would risk leaving a child alone with a known child molester if he told you that his molestations were limited to ones that happened decades ago and to which he's confessed. I would not.
In the case of the relative Collins molested, it did in fact change her life. She told someone around 25 years ago and the confirmed molestation had enough of a negative impact on her to write an anonymous letter of warning to his wife 15 years ago. She's been cooperating in the police investigations for years without going public. To suggest that she must be a weak baggage-carrier who's somehow doing wrong by her molester -- simply because Collins wasn't publicly outed or prosecuted within 30 to 40 years of molesting her and because your personal experiences and reactions to molestation are different than her's -- is more presumptuous and short-sighted to me than suggesting that her life must have been changed by the molestation, user.
And, yeah, I agree that the nasty divorce settlement battle is likely what spun Collins' confession into the public realm at this time. His wife may well be a huge vindictive bitch who's enjoying watching him squirm and lose his career. You feel sorry, to some degree, for the spot he's in. I don't; I think he's lucky to have avoided being outed, jailed, and required to register as a sex offender for so long. I hope he didn't molest more than the three girls to which he's confessed, but I won't be surprised if he did.
IDK, user. Maybe you would risk leaving a child alone with a known child molester if he told you that his molestations were limited to ones that happened decades ago and to which he's confessed. I would not.