Well, I guess we can each decide whether what you, as a group, have done to make people aware of that 'man' is enough or not. Saying that "the Lord will handle it" refers to punishment in the future. That doesn't cover events in the here or now, or things that have happened in the past 30 years. You don't know if he visits playgrounds or hangs around schools. Is he active in kids activities in the church? Is he treated there as someone who is trusted? What is the fear factor that you mentioned? His daughters in fear of him? Why? Aren't they adults now? How are they protecting their daughters? Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: AletaM@aol.com Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] RE: [BS-L] WOW... I MISSED you guys!!! Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:00:01 EDT In a message dated 5/13/02 8:26:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > My only concern is for the others he may > still be hurting. The problem is that the only proof is in the memories of those involved. Most want nothing to do with this now that they are out of it. Some will not admit that it happened. If he acted the same with his daughters, it is hearsay on my part. As I said, the Lord will take care of it. I think the neighbor hood was put on alert when the flood of nieces and nephews, the boys couldn't go without their sisters, stopped having overnight visits, which are the custom in my Mom's family. Yes, when we could we told the girls in the neighborhood to not be alone with him, they would look at us strangely, then nod and tell us, "OK." Back then, in this place, adults word was law and the children had to develop their own defense until it was feasible to loosen it. The children here were very good at that. We all have the same belief that the Lord will take care of it. It was our responsibility to try to keep it from happening more, which we did. However nothing in that matter is 100%. This is why our attitude is what it is. We know better, we did actively do our best to teach the younger children that this was not a good thing. Did we paint him into a corner? To some extent, yes. Since he has lived in the same home for over 44 years the neighbors are probably very aware of what he is. I remember my Aunt, his wife who just died, commenting about the children not wanting to play in their yard when he was at home. This is a very strong indication that word got around. When there are 6 small children in a house, half girls, usually there are children in and out in a stream, not so in their home. Those who came by were mostly boys, he didn't bother them. In this neighbor hood it was safer for them to play in the park, two blocks away, than in my Uncle's yard. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.