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[livejournal.com profile] warinbear's grandfather sent him an e-mail. He wants to come and visit.

The man is a known child molester. [livejournal.com profile] catchild's journal holds more info on the subject.

Old New England family. He is the family patriarch. The whole family knows that he likes little girls, and most of them carefully pretend that the problem doesn't exist.

Old family, old blood, and he has the family estate. According to his eldest daughter ([livejournal.com profile] warinbear's mom) who also happens to be the executer of his estate, he has a right to have access to every member of his family. Quoting: " That was a long time ago. He knows what he did was inappropriate; he doesn't do it anymore. Besides, he only did it to his own daughters, and only to make them better wives. And he has never done it to anyone else." Direct quote, to the best of [livejournal.com profile] catchild memory, from four years ago.

If you do anything that upsets her, you get cut out of any will that she has any control over, and she does his books and estate for him. And not letting him have access to his kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids upsets her. And she still believes that he has a right to see his great-grandchildren, even after one of her sisters sent a letter to every family member that she had an address for. Said letter was a copy of one that she had sent her father, and listed what he had done to her and to her older daughter.

Our daughters, [livejournal.com profile] catchild and myself are, to the best of my knowledge, the only female family members that he has not molested in some way.

I despise family politics.

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Date: 2004-07-26 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catchild.livejournal.com
note to folks;

my entry is friends locked. if you go to my journal you will not see the post or responses unless you are on my friends list.

Ummm

Date: 2004-07-26 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mama-hogswatch.livejournal.com
I would be unlikely to consider money from any will a concern at this point. I would consider it appropriate NOT to visit.

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Date: 2004-07-27 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] warinbear.livejournal.com
Actually, my mom is not the oldest of her siblings. She has an older sister S, who lives in the same state Grampa does (I don't recall whether she still lives in the same town).

I wonder whether my mom's attitude about her dad's actions has changed at all since seeing the letter my aunt V (one of her younger sisters) sent out recently. V explained therein her stance on Grampa's actions while she was a child, and what she will permit now (as far as visitation and the like), and specifically stated that while she does not like what he did, she still still loves him. The things he did wrong were far and away from the only things he did, to her and to others.

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