Family and friends of sex offenders, what are they like, how do you cope, and what's it like supporting them through life?

Got to suffer through having a pedo for an older brother. Grandma was the one who went through the abcs of maybe he didn't mean to , victim blaming etcetera and was all poor baby blah blah when he turned into an adult and accidently fooled around a 14 year old girl. Not sure if she was a willi g participant at the time and just lied about her age but her parents where upset enough to have charges brought down upon him and as a result I got to spend my later teens free of him. Somewhere between his ten year sentence someone in my family let it slip in a phone call what he did to me and sometime after he had a little confrontation with the guards that got physical. That added alot of time on his sentence. Not sure where he is now. I think he did something not related to the later charges to keep himself locked up because at this point hes used to prison. I would say he was probably punishing himself about what a horrendous fuck up he is but I doubt it ever occurred to him to take responsibility for anything he happened to do because no one ever forced him to while growing up.

He is what happens when you take a child molester and a narcisstic fuck up raises him and makes him her golden child. No one was on my side growing up so that also put my extended family on the outs. They all seemed to view me as damaged goods and ironically IM probably doing the best out of grandma's children but that was thanks to boyfriend with tons of empathy. His family is my family.

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