As a parent, do you think you owe it to your child to stand by them no matter what, even if they make a disgusting and hurtful decision as a full-grown adult?
Several days ago, this man’s best friend came to him in a fury, and he presented him with screenshots of his 22-year-old son messaging his best friend’s teen daughter.
Apparently, his son has been reaching out to his best friend’s daughter for months, and she only turned 18 a couple of weeks ago.
The very last message his son sent to his best friend’s daughter was an inappropriate photo of himself. That photo was something his best friend’s daughter showed to his best friend, which caused his best friend to understandably melt down.
He said sorry to his best friend, and he truly had no idea his son was doing this. His son lives hours away from him currently, so he has no knowledge of what he’s up to since he’s no longer living at home.
His best friend mentioned wanting to go to the police to press charges against his son, and he told his best friend that he fully supports this.
In fact, he said that if he were in his shoes, he would be doing the exact same thing. His son knowingly preyed on a teen girl, since he’s clearly been badgering her for weeks on end.
He no longer loves his son after discovering that he’s nothing but a predatory monster, and this is not some random mistake. He thinks that his wife is to blame for babying his son to no end, but this is the first time his son has done something to harm someone.
“I still don’t really know what’s gonna happen now but whatever happens it’s my son’s fault, my son tried saying it’s not him but she had taken screenshots and recorded the screen for videos and it’s definitely his account, even the…pic is his, he has a little tattoo on his hand and it’s there,” he explained.
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“I’m…[severely disappointed] and angry at him right now, and I don’t wanna support him at all in this. I apologised to the girl, and she told me it’s not my problem.”
“My wife is upset at this, she’s horrified at what he did, and she too apologised to the girl, but she says we shouldn’t have involved the police, and that I should support him because he’s our son.”
He questioned his wife about how she would feel if this exact thing happened to one of their three daughters. He pressed her on whether she would go to the police, and she didn’t have anything to say.
However, his wife still feels he needs to do everything possible to help their son dodge any repercussions, since she’s convinced he’s helping to ruin their son’s future.
He responded that their son did a great job wrecking his future all on his own, and his friend is an angel for not doing anything more.
He’s so embarrassed and ashamed because his best friend’s daughter is also his goddaughter and a kid he treated like his own.
“…If some [guy] did that to one of my daughters, I’d have sent him to the hospital, not the police,” he continued.
“But am I somehow the [jerk] here for not supporting my son at all?”
His wife is delusional for thinking his son deserves them to come running to his defense. His son is an adult, full stop. His son knows what he did was wrong, and he did it anyway, so he should take the fall for his actions.
Preying on a child is no joke, and if his best friend won’t do something about it, who’s to say his son won’t continue to go after teen girls?
What advice do you have for him?
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