Chip's Blog

That was a fantastic article that you posted. It comes from the heart, and it speaks the truth about how your prosepective changes throughout your adult life.

Chip - don't beat yourself up about not calling. It's not you that's to blame at all, it's this creep who tried to make himself "cool" to teens by supplying them with drugs and alcohol. You are doing what you can now, getting the word out. Hopefully something becomes of this and this is investigated.

creep. Well, perhaps this will launch something. Hopefully. Let me know what becomes of this!

I'm still wondering...I was hoping that one of the Fox25 folks would come along here...but we never make it to the community pages anymore so I doubt they dig this far.

And Chrissy, it is each of our responsibilities to repoirt this activity...I appreciate yo trying to make me feel better, but I know right from wrong...Who better to hold accountable for my behavior then myself?

Chip, you don't need to make it to the community page. E-mail the story to Mike Beaudet. On one of the blogs he did on insurance, he gives his e-mail address at the station. Can't remember it offhand, but if I remember it, I'll let you know. This story is far too important to stake on making it to the front page.

Candace is right. You can't beat yourself up for not calling. From what I read here, you will do much more good in this case by tipping off Mike Beaudet and maybe a few other stations' investigative crews.

Xantun, thank you. I sent it to Fox25. You have no iudea how much it touches me that you guys would let me off the hook. I am a "bull in the china shop" here and it is frequently about personal responsibility. I want you guys to know I hold myself to the same standards.

Chip, it's not that we're "letting you off the hook", or at least I'm not. My take on this is that calling the superintendent doesn't seem like it would do much. I got the feeling that the people in charge in regards to this already had a pretty good idea about this guy, and one more complaint would be added to the pool. You've shown personal responsibility by trying to bring this to the attention of investigative reporting teams, which is not only going to fill the pool of complaints, it's going to overflow it to the point that a full accounting of how this has been handled from the start will have to be done. Just charging in isn't always the best way to be personally responsible. Sometimes, and this reads to me like one of them, you need to use your head in order to show personal responsibility AND at the same time, get something accomplished. This, my friend, is one of those times.

Chip,

What bothers me most about this is, if this guy has been doing this for 20 years why hasn’t anyone come out against him? It doesn’t seem right to me that after all these years no one has outed him and said anything, especially if there was any type of sexual abuse going on. If there was any type of sexual abuse going on from the first time it happened, and was never reported and these same people grew up had kids and still live in this town and new about this and allowed this same sort of thing to happened to their kids, then that is one sick town. What proof is there that he bought a cell phone for this boy? That should be easy information to get and possibly trace any text messages.

I not knowing all the facts of this story and local town politics and just taking the information you’ve provided is what I’m basing my opinion on. Chip, I live in a small town and I know this would never be tolerated in my town.

Chip,

I did read the letter. One person finally had the courage to come forward and write a letter about what this man did. Maybe now that this one person who has now come forward will get more of this creeps victims to come out and testify against him. How was it that this creep was able to fly under the radar for so long?

If the people who hired him knowing about his past and chose to disregarded it, then they should have been fired for allowing this to continue. Has he ever been charged and convicted of any sexual abuse?

What I find so astonishing is that these pedophiles have more than 200 victims. Are any of his other victims going to come forward and press charges against him? You would think that a creep like this who has violated so many kids for so long surely more than one person would come out and testify against him, don’t you?

I hate to think that I wouldn’t have heard of something like that going on in my own town. People like to gossip, and I think if this was going on in my town, someone would have to say something about it.

It is very difficult for a boy to come forward and say...I had gay sex with (blank), whether it was consensual or not...

And at 16, would YOU have turned in the guy who bought you your beer?

Chip,

It’s an extremely difficult thing to do, not only for him, but for anyone who has been molested. But, in order for the healing process to begin you have to come out and tell the truth about what, why and how it all started. This young boy has to be told and made to understand that he’s a victim and he didn’t do anything wrong. The person who touched him is the one who did something wrong not him. This young man needs to be told how much he’s loved and cared about by his family and showered with affection , then they all need to get into counseling, the sooner the better. Only then will the healing process begin.

Hopefully with this young man coming forward it will trigger a domino effect and more and more people will come out against this MONSTER.