Your friend tells you they're a paedophile

[mlmooney89]

I'm just saying that you can't trust someone that already admits to being very sick. Sooner or later most indulge themselves. I was reading some of these comments saying that they believe that their friend hasn't done anything yet simply cause they trust their friend. That isn't how it works. If people believed my step dad over me I would have had to suffer his wrath at telling someone. What if this 'friend' DID touch a child and that child is too afraid to speak out or too young to understand that it wasn't appropriate? What if it is the guilty feeling spurring the person to tell you? I'm mostly going against the ones saying that they just accept that this person hasn't and won't do anything wrong, just because. I do see that others are requesting medical help for the friend.

Well it's established that this is my friend. So I should know them enough to know whether or not they're yanking my chain when they said they never touched a child inappropriately. Of course if it was a friend, and I spent a lot of time with them, including with children, I'd probably already have some idea that they liked kids a little too much.

The important thing is the present and future. Which is why I'd maintain contact with them, and make sure they got treatment and whatever else they need. I don't make friends, or throw them away, easily. Now if something comes out that proves s/he did do something wrong, that's for the cops and judicial system to work out.

See there it is you believe them because you trust them and THINK you know them. Are you telling me that my mom didn't know the man she was married to for over 15 years? Didn't see how he treated me exactly like he did my sisters? How being married to him she trusted him with her life, her children's lives, and loved him? How she had known him for over 20 years, slept next to him every night, talked about everything under the sun with him, saw that he was a substitute teacher and how all the kids loved him. How everyone, including my mother, was blindsided, stunned, unable to accept it for truth that this mason/Shriner, volunteer at charities, Christian, wonderful father/teacher/husband, charismatic man had been sexually abusing his oldest daughter for years.

You can think you know your friend all you want but that doesn't mean you do.