HardWorker of Augusta, ME Another thing, Mainly Maid, is that DHS doesn't just go knocking on people's doors asking if their children are being abused. They have to receive a complaint in order to investigate. I didn't read/hear anything in all the articles and TV news reports I read/saw about DHS being involved.report abuse

HardWorker of Augusta, ME Mainly Maid: You should give this information to the police, considering the KJ and other media companies got that word from the police. DUH. Yeah, every newspaper and news channel is calling each other to say it was a relationship. Get a life.report abuse

MainlyMaid of Auburn, ME "A police affidavit quoted a family friend as saying the victim had a sexual relationship with her son that started when he was 8 or 9 years old." Why is it that gross sexual assault continues to be described in affidavits, newspapers and other media as "sexual relationship?" The only "relationship" here is one of gross victimization by this mother if it really ocurred. Get with the program law enforcement and KJ. Gross sexual assault is not a "sexual relationship."

When you use the word "relationship" in connection to any word, you imply a responsibility, to varying degrees, on behalf of both parties spoken of. When used in the case of rape, molestation, assault or other crime, it implies that the victim is somehow engaging in or allowing the act to take place. It is about time that media and others got a lesson in calling a spade a spade and stop suggesting that victims of crime are somehow causing it to happen because the have a "relationship" of some kind with the act or perpetrator of the act. It is a mistake that is repeated in these papers over and over and makes me sick.

If this kid was being raped since age 8-9 years old by his mother, then it is understandable that his rage became such that he could not tolerate her anymore. Add to it that this mother was invading the personal relationship he had with his fiance and it is an automatic recipe for this outcome. I wonder where the child protective workers of the Department of Human Suffering were when he needed them?report abuse