Why I hope predators die slow painful deaths

[copzgirl1171]

I think that I have maybe shared this story before, but I think I will do it again.

We camethisclose to letting a predator near our daughter.

The exH owns a business and when we were married it was not unusual for clients to come over and pay their bill, shoot the breeze and whatnot. There was one particular client that started becoming more and more friendly, offered up a gift of a car for my mother, stopped by unannounced etc.

He was fond of babycopz and would remark about how cute she was, how he liked her curls, etc. Babycopz was extremely shy as a child and would not go to anyone nor would she talk to anyone she didn't know. This man tried his best to get her to like him. We (thankfully) never made her step out of her comfort zone and she never got near him.

EVERY SINGLE RED FLAG IN THE WORLD was being thrown at us and we didn't get it.

Shortly after he started coming to the house he was charged with GSI and having molested family members and their children. He is doing mega time in prison.

I shudder to think what could have happened if we had ever left her unattended with that man or if she didn't have natural shy tendencies.

It kept us up nights, my exH wanted to kill this man. I mean really, physically with his bare hands. I think he would have too if this man had been given bond. We played the interactions over and over in our head making sure she had never spent one second with him out of our sight. We questioned babycopz gently just to make double sure.

I will never get over how close he came to my child and how quickly and seemingly easy he could have and probably did get to a more vulnerable child.

You can never know. Never with almost anyone what their innocent intentions may really be harboring.

[marie427]

I am so glad nothing happened to babycopz, but I feel so sorry for his poor victims.

I've never experienced anything like this but I think I might be in denial (though that might be a strong word...maybe disbelief?) that there are red flags being thrown at me. This is something I only hear about in the media so it wouldn't feel real and I'd chalk up something like this to him just being a weirdo, not necessarily a predator. Hope that makes sense. Hindsight really is 20/20.