My grandfather, who had helped raise me from the age of 10 due to having been removed from my mother and stepfather's home for severe physical, emotional, sexual, and psychological abuse, was a convicted sex offender, and there was a distinct possibility I was born from incest. Thankfully the DNA test I took showed I wasn't, but it was a frightening possibility. I was an adult when I learned of this, and a number of other things. But this one was the most shocking.
He was an Army veteran from the Vietnam War, and was 'honorably' discharged the year I was born. Come to find out, he was forced to retire because the Army found out about the charges against him. The only reason I found out was because I was renting a property to him and he was preparing to move to another town. He was drunk and was talking to me about being worried about not being able to move.
When I asked why, he just bluntly said, 'Because I'm a registered sex offender. I was in jail for two years after you were born because I was having sex with your mother.' To say I was shocked was an understatement. This was a man I regularly had let watch my two boys, that I had the utmost respect for. And to make matters worse, that meant the state Child Protective Services, knowing he was a sex offender, placed me in his home as a preteen.
The sad thing is, that wasn't the only revelation that night. Come to find out, he had been sleeping with my ex-wife before he got with the woman he was moving in with.
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