Topic : 05/21 Grandpa Returns: The Aftermath

She has absolutely no memory of her father molesting her. Nor any evidence that he molested the son. Just feelings. Anyone can say that about anyone else. "I just have a feeling you did something to me." The repressed memory cases have mostly been debunked but a lot of people suffered. The McMartin case was an example of a witchhunt that ruined lives because somebody had a feeling. Those people were exonerated but way too late.

She does have evidence that he was physically abusive. I think the screaming and carrying on is for effect, probably something she developed early in life. She asks like a time bomb ready to go off. She obviously wants attention. It's very practiced. She also obviously has severe problems. Maybe from molestation. There's no way to know because if her father had molested her past the age where she could remember, she would have remembered. She has no specifics at all except the story that her mother repeated about an erection in the bathtub. And that grandma looks like another piece of work with her teen-age outfits and spiked hair. There's more to this family than meets the eye and not just the grandfather.

Sheri-Lynn IS taking care of her son.  She IS getting help for him.  How do you know how she is taking care of him in a one-hour show?

From the sound of your posts, you may not be playing the victim, but you have some anger issues that you might consider getting help for.

I think once we become adult we become responsibile for are own happiness, strangth and weaknesses!!!Sheri Lynn is weak like her mother and selfish like her father, she makes that choice everyday,If she is the most important victim then  then his needs come in second as we seen on the show, how can she take care of the child????

Bring Gramps on the show was not for Parker she and the show used his troubles to make a show!!!  it barely touched his troubles let alone helped in anyway!!! If anything it will add now to his troubles with friends and school chums seeing the show!!! Shrri knew 6 years ago about the abuse her father did to her, he himself told her the sick and twisted thing he did to her in the bath tub,

Sherri Sherri selfish side  needs a person to point to besides herself for what happened to her son, I think it was very crule to use his story  as a plateform to take the light off her responsibiltys as his parent his protector.  Why does no one talk about what CPS reviews are about Parker??? too many holes in this story, and to many weak and selfish people around Parker, useing his story without telling his story!!! his story was just a selfish gate to Sherri Lynns story, remember they where getting help before the show, the show just easied sherri Lynn guilt but added to Parkers troubles, what 12 year old kid need his ugly story told on national tv. when it helped him not!!!!

 Why would he get any air time at all  he seems mentally ill. I just am lost on why anyone would  try rationalizing with him. Why wasn't he checked for mental stability BEFORE going on the Dr Phil show. He is sick ...his daughter also shows signs of it.

The whole family looks to be unstable. I know it's a subject people need to understand and be aware of but a guy with mental defect can't be figured out.

He might pass a polygraph one day and the next fail.  Dr Phil tried to be understanding and offered him help for me though it should have already been given BEFORe he came on. I guess it's for ratings....

He needs to be checked into a mental health facility , for life. Daughter needs to be examined too before she screws up Parker. He said he is a child advocate well Parker isn't in stable hands now is he.

The mother has no spine. She knows whether or not he did these things.  

"It is all about getting people like you to feel sorry for her!!!"?

Well, you can count me in as one of those "people like you". I have sympathy for her. I think it took a tremendous amount of courage to be willing to face her father and stand up to him and try and get him to acknowledge what he has done to her. She IS getting help for her son. But, she also needs help in healing herself. 

Just because someone is hurting emotionally doesn't make them any less hurting. Would it be easier if she had cancer that was eating away at her body and was sitting there bald from chemo, for you to have sympathy for her? This is eating away at her emotionally. There are a lot of different types of hurt. No one said that her son is not the most important person in this situation. She is speaking out on behalf of her son, along with herself. If she doesn't stand up to her father, who else is going to do it?

And actually, she is trying to "get over herself", as you put it, by bringing this out into the open and not trying to cover it up and bury it away somewhere deep inside where it can fester and smolder, to come out later on. I think she will move on eventually, with some help, but sometimes when you're traveling down the rocky road of life, you come to a place , where, in order to move on, you have to build a bridge. She is building a bridge to her and her son's future.

After watching all 3 shows, I've come to the following conclusions:

• The Grandfather has (admittedly) molested before and probably will again if not treated. Hiding behind religion is just cowardice.
• Sherri Lynn had false memories of being pregnant- could her "feeling" about being abused by her father also be a false memory?
• Although Sherri did not "remember" the sexual abuse when she left Parker with his grandparents- she did remember the physical abuse with the power cord.  That alone would be reason to NOT leave your child with them.  A good mother does not put her child in to the care of someone who has a history of being physically abusive!!!!
• As far as we know, Parker has not claimed to have been molested by his grandfather- so at this point, there are no grounds to have the grandfather arrested. Is Sherri looking into other adults who have had access to Parker who could have been a perpetrator?  It's also possible that there has been more than one perpetrator judging by the way Parker has chosen to act out at such and early age!
• Sherri's poor husband made a poor choice of words when describing how he feels about Sherri being possibly abused by her father.  He said he felt like he had been raped- since rape is about power and not sex I believe he was trying to say he felt like his power as a man to protect his wife and family had been stolen from him.  Yes, Sherri is going through hell, but so is he.  A crisis can either bring a family together or tear them apart.  While Sherri is so focused on HER feelings, I believe she is not capable of seeing that both her husband and her son are hurting too.
• We know for sure that the son has molested at least one other child.  He needs help now before he strikes again.  As much as Sherri is hurting about her past, she needs to buck up and find the strength to help her son.  Parker is a child.  Sherri as a mother needs to put his immediate needs first.  As a parent, you need to put your own pain and anger on the back burner while your child is hurting.  As an adult, you can find resources to help you with your problems- but your child is totally dependent on you for help. 

Sherri, the bottom line is right now you can't go in to hysterics and become so dramatic.  You need to put your son first and get him the help he needs.  A mother lion protects her cubs from harm.  You can't do that when you keep putting the focus back on you and your needs. As a mother, your child has to come first. Pull yourself together long enough to get your son the help he needs and can only get if you are 100% fully in his corner and focused on him. 

LOL...

Very well stated...i am also not sure why people feel the need to air this kind of thing on national television...???  What's the motive behind that?