I watched this show with my husband. I kept my 15 year old (soon to be adopted) son out of the room. I cried, i screamed and i clapped. This story is tragic and unfortunatly not a isolated incident. I''ve never met my sons mother or grandfather, but threw this story i saw them, thier story, almost identical to this families. I see the man who hurt my son, the woman who let it happen, although she herself had been tormented by this man for some reason allowed him in her life (much like my sister-in-law who allows her father to be around her son after he's sexually abused her).
In the grandfather and grandmother i saw my in-laws. The man pious and righteous with no remorse, if not sociapathic and hiding behind his religion as WAY to many abusers do. A woman who is naive, fearful and most likely brainwashed into thinking that she would never survive without him, afriad to leave for whatever reasons. BOTH are responsible for what happened to Sheri-lyn and Parker. And yes i believe sheri holds some responsibility in what happend to her son as well.
I'm so sick of hearing people hiding behind the Bible! I'm so sick of people saying that if anyone can accept Jesus Christ into thier hearts they dont have to be responsible for thier actions. He sat thier and said that he was ok with "God" and thats all that matters! thats crap! He quoted scripture! that really angers me. (I like the pastors definition of "father" very well though.) I know of 5 adults who as children were molested by "Men of God" all of different churches and denomonations....and they are the ONLY adults i know who where molested.
Out of all the people i know of who have been abused physically (not counting foster kids) the number one "drug" that "made them" abuse was the BIBLE. I know of at least 20 peole who were abused (not spanked but abused severly) thanks to "spare the rod, spoil the child". When will people start leaving the Bible and religion out of it!!!!! and stop hiding behind it and using it as an excuse to control and manipulate and abuse people and to get out of CRIMES commited.
Here locally a man admitted to a priest that he sexually assulted a 4 week old baby boy... the only reason the priest went to law enforcement was because the man admitted to it in front of his wife. If he had said that in the confessional a 941 year old cannon law would have prohibited the priest from coming forth and letting it be known the child was being raped! and thus that child probably would have been tramatized and raped over and over again. We need to get rid of the law that says that priests dont have to report crimes that are addmitted to them in a confessional!!!!!