what is a secret you know about someone that could literally ruin their life?

My step grandfather slept with a 14 year old beck in the vietnam days. He was In his 30's when he did this and he told me during a car ride to his doctor's appointment. That information still fucks me up because that was a man I grew up admiring because he'd always been so nice to me, he was a great grandfather... But having him casually admit he was a P*do made my world come crashing down.

Then my mother spilled my cousins secret to me, telling me that after my grandmother died he molested my cousin. I wasn't supposed to tell anyone I knew, but I couldn't keep that secret, I had to tell my aunt that something my cousin said in confidence was told to me... My mother lied about it and now the family just sees me as a nosey liar.

Within the course of 2 years I'd learned that my step grandpa was a serial P*do and when I said anything I got accused of starting drama. My Step Grandpa is still free Because of the statute of limitations and that bothers me.

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