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Topic : 04/24 A Boy in Trouble

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Created on : Friday, April 18, 2008, 03:25:01 pm
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What if you found out that your own child was molesting other children? Sherie-Lynn says her 12-year-old son, Parker, has been acting out sexually since he was 4 years old. She always suspected that he had been molested, and now that he’s been expelled from school for violent behavior and inappropriate sexual conduct with another student, she’s confronting her family’s dirty secret. Could Sherie-Lynn’s father, Al, whom she claims molested her as a child, have violated her son? And what does Sherie-Lynn’s mother, Elaine, say she witnessed? As Sherie-Lynn faces her painful past, will her father give her the answers she’s looking for? Share your thoughts, join the discussion.

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April 24, 2008, 2:07 pm PDT

Wow

I could hardly watch the grandfather.  He kept smiling and laughing as though this was a game.  Why would he even have the conversation with the banker about whether he pulled down her pants...OMG...what a nutcase!  The more he professed his innocence and then all the information about his previous molestation came out...how could he possibly defend himself.  He is a molester...pure and simple. I can only imagine what his sister would have to say now. 

 

Poor Parker....that definitely was learned behavior.  I think the man should be in prison!  Either the mother is braindead, or in total denial...very selfish woman.  I can't believe a mother would stay with a man of this calibre.  What is she afraid of other than losing her material things. 

 

The daughter sure needs some help.  She actually scared me watching her.  That family is truly lost.  Two culprits....the grandparents!  Yes, I include the mother!

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:12 pm PDT

Pathetic loser like so many women!

I just watched todays show and sit in awe. WHY would any normal good mother sit and watch her child be abused sexually, act blind,  and continue to live with the man???  I am confused as to why someone like the "pedafile" grandfather is NOT in prison. As far as I know, there is no cure for a pedafile and they should put them all on one big island.

 

I would live under a bridge with my children and go hungry before any man would touch one of my children and now my grandchildren and have me know about it!  They would not live to do it again.  It appears to me, it is women who are desperate and feel they can't make it on their own,  and don't think they can get anyone else, who stay with the sickos.  I am sorry but I want to slap her silly and tell women like that to wake the hell up.

 

Sick, sick sick! I am totally disgusted and hope they cart his butt off to jail. See how he likes someone touching him in there!

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:14 pm PDT

I don't quite buy Sherie Lynn's story

 

 

Although I feel Al has some problems that should be addressed immediately...  I just didn't quite buy Sherie lynn's story.  She just seemed to be overly distraught, as if she were acting.     I am excited for tomorrows episode to see the results of the polograph. If these things happen to the degree sherie Lynn is saying, she would have gone to the authorities and under no circumstances would she have left her son alone with him.. Especially camping out..   I once thought my grandpa was the strongest too. That doesn't mean the boy was molested by Al, granted it could have been a tactic by Al to keep the boy from sharing their secrets..  We'll see tomorrow.

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:21 pm PDT

boy in trouble??

If the boy is in trouble it's because the mother wasn't around to care for him. now she is feeling guilty.   Another thing the "accuser " needs -acting lessons--hated the show today . It's disgusting to know that you can put on shows like that--even when you know the woman isn't actually sure of what happened in her life. SHE JUST KNOWS?? If the father is guilty ,what is wrong with the mother that she did not report him or leave him? All she had to do is call the police and someone would have investigated. And they are sleeping in the same bed??  She even said she went back to see if he would leave the house and he wouldn't.--so was it true? Granted--the father needs some kind of counseling--that is quite obvious--but who in the world thought this would make good  for 2 episodes. I gave it a chance--won't watch tomorrow.
 
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April 24, 2008, 2:24 pm PDT

Thrusday 04/24

 I have never registered for Dr.Phil's 9 (no fan here) website, because I don't view his program much, but I was curious about todays program.

I was astounded !! It is amazing to me how families can appear on T.V. over such horrific matters.

Obviously, they need help, but in my opinion, a private therapist would have been the way to go, if for no other reason than the 12 year old child.

 

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:27 pm PDT

04/24 A Boy in Trouble

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I hope the child is getting help, grand dad needs to go to prison, grandma needs to wake up, and the step dad well I feel for him, and the mother of the boy, well there is just something about her, I don't feel alot sympathy for her, and I don't know why,I want to, but can't, maybe the next show will show more from her.

I agree, just something about her, and her dad is a CREEP
 
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April 24, 2008, 2:30 pm PDT

I was creeped out too!!!

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:37 pm PDT

Fry the mother

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I agree that we shouldn't "fry" the mothers.  I also agree that our society has tendency to blame the victim which causes insult to injury for the victims and their families.  However, as the  mother of two boys (7 yrs and 1 yr), if anything like this ever happened to my boys I PRAY the police find the abuser before I do!   I can not comprehend why this mother didnt go to the police as soon as she got her first inclination that this could be going on.  This boy needs intense counseling and Grandpa NEEDS to be in jail!  I started teaching my oldest about "surprises are good; secrets are bad" and the "good touch/bad touch" when he was around 3.  After shows like this one, I want to lock my kids up in my house so no one can ever hurt them.  Which obviously is not an option.  So I do my best to watch for the "warning" signs and keep my kids informed about boundaries and how important it is to TELL MOMMY EVERYTHING!!!!  My heart ACHES for this poor boy.

You just dingdong betcha I'd fry that vapid mother.  We had two girls and if I'd seen that, the father would have been lucky to live long enough to go to jail.  Absolutely, she was the only one who could help her daughter.   She knew about the beating later, also.  She is one of the most vapid women I've come across with her pouty little voice and staying for material reasons, literally sacrificing her daughter.

I also do not understand why the daughter would then leave her little boy with dear old granddaddy, but perhaps she thought those things happen only to girls.  At least she has some excuse, being so emotionally damaged.

I do hope that professional help will be of benefit to the daughter and her son.   Since the sanctimonious old man thinks he's "forgiven" (you're forgiven by God only when you've truly repented AND changed) he's smug.  I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, as the old saying goes. 

Those of you who are so forgiving of the original mother sound like her. 

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:38 pm PDT

They have ALL needed help for a LONG time!!!!

First of all, I want to say that when the abuse 1st starting happening in the bath tub, the Mother had a duty to report her husband and protect her daughter and for her to say that she didn't know where to get help is BULL!!!!!  The women that protect these men should be prosecuted just as much as the abuser.

I also wonder if the abuse kept repeating itself,  why Shari Lynn would even go near him (which shows in the photograph) and why did she allow her son to spend the night with them since abuse happened to her?  Sexual abusers DON'T stop after the first time.  They continue doing it throughout their entire life one way or another.

They all need extreme counseling, and the father totally disgust me and this whole thing has made me sick!!!!

Hopefully, the authorities will step in, and even Shari can still go to court and get him put behind bars where he belongs.

I pray that her son will get the help he needs before he hurts anyone else.   

 
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April 24, 2008, 2:39 pm PDT

I can't belive this!!!

Get this man off the streets!!!!!  As a parent I don't want a man like him near my children. If he thinks he dosen't have a problem he needs to take a lie detector test to prove that this poor girl lived a life of HELL with this man and also her child and his own siblings growing up.  WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD HAVE KEEP HER DAUGHTER IN THAT HOUSE AFTER WHAT SHE SAW WITH HER OWN EYES! TO A INECENT BABY!! GIVE ME A BREAK YOUR SORRY AND ONLY ONE TIME!!!BS
 
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