My poor inlaws...

My husband is in jail for burglary related to his alcohol and drug addiction and soon will be in rehab for a year... his family has spent thousands and thousands of dollars on him in the past few years... their other son has his own issues... he "used" to be a drinker but shifted to gambling... he is a lawyer and seemed to be doing okay... in July... the same month my husband was arrested he was accused of running a child prostitution ring that covered the whole east coast... which just blew our minds and we of course just think is friggin ridiculous... he was arrested because it was traced to his internet connection somehow but was released on bail...

My husband told me the case was dropped and he returned to work. I just randomly did a search on my brother-in-law however and saw that that is not true... the case is still active and he is no longer working, they are still digging through his computers. My husband also tells me his brother is drinking again... though obviously I can't believe a word my husband says... though that might not be fair... maybe he's been lied to too.

I can't wrap my head around there ACTUALLY being a child prostitution ring... it just doesn't make technical sense... he works 60 hour weeks, they are talking like he's made a lot of money off of this... but he's broke as hell constantly... he's never been to any of the places they are saying he has set up this "ring"... he has a live-in girlfriend who also works with him and she says she would probably notice if he was running a prostitution ring and transporting children across state lines...

but I am beginning to understand that he most probably actually DID have the conversation that resulted in him being arrested. Who knows WHY he did it... he has a weird sense of humor... he's also a published writer and maybe he was doing some stupid research for a book... anyway I guess the point isn't if he is actually doing that... but I just feel for his family... what a disaster... both sons in trouble... my FIL losing his job every year or so, their dog (who wa sliek a child for them) just died, their grandkids who they psychotically adore have been taken away form them... I don't feel guilty... I didn't do any of this... I just feel badly for them.

it's on my mind tonight.

 
By elegantlinda on Sun, 01-29-12, 04:45

Wow! I agree with you, your inlaws have a lot of terrible things going on in their lives. I am sure they are asking themselves why but you know what? I've seen good people raise kids who turn out to be "not so good" if you catch my drift.

Prayers going out for your inlaws; I hope things get better for their sakes.

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By MaluLani on Sun, 01-29-12, 10:23

Im so sorry for your inlaws too. Sady child prositution & human trafficing are way too common of problems even in us. Human trafficing (including child prositution)-is the 2nd largest industry/money maker for organized crime & gangs=falls behind the drug trade but not by much. Your brother in law will loss his law liscense for good if he has any affilation w. child prostitution as he should. My husband was not a good guy and was friendly/affilation with a gang (he was good friends w. one of the higher lever chicago gangs) & i know he was aware of child prostitution/human trafficing--not sure if he ever partiicpated-but he was careful not to be too involved or too close ties w. certain things bc he didn't want to lose his engineering liscense or legal trouble. When i was younger-he use to joke w me that he could get more money then i was worth for me if he sold me-especially since i,m paler so could pass as white-so i should be happy he never did that & appreciate him. it sickens me to know how much sick men will pay for children.--amoung teens/preteens the younger they look the more money they're sold for. disgusting but sadly a reality more ppeople need to be aware of. in us-they prey on poor, runaways, children in foster care/foster homes & sadly more girls of color because police dont usually follow up too hard missing persons on those girls & sadly their are some girls who no one would look for.
I hate to be a debbie downer-but w. ur husband & brother in law-i got to wonder if genetics had to play w. them both being messed up, i worry about genetics all the time since my husband was a nutt job-but even in his family his sisters are normal/ok. Could also show poor parenting on ur mother in law's side.

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By MaluLani on Sun, 01-29-12, 10:25

Also if ur brother in law is that sick---i am even more happy u are away from that family! U definately have to protect ur kids from someone like that/.

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By JessicaC on Sun, 01-29-12, 10:38

I honestly don't htink there is an actual prostitution ring. they have had his computer for over 6 months and had an extention because they haven't found anything yet... if he was running a ring I'm sure they would have found SOMETHING by now. he had an unsecured internet and they traced his IP... but other than that nothing.

this all came form some conversation with someone in New Jersey online where someone using my BIL's internet bragged about being able to set this guy up with kids. If he is involved at ALL in this it was some really weird (he's a really weird guy) joke or he was stringing this guy along or playing around for a new book he was writing or somehting.... if it was actually him talking at ALL...

I am not really concerned that he was actually trafficing children... I am just feeling bad for all of the drama in this family. It's too much. These two "men" are magnets for drama... if they aren't actually doing somehting horrible they are doing stupid things that make it look like they are or get them in trouble for being just mildly connected to some drama. They get bored and they are very immature and just go looking for crap to get into.

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By MaluLani on Sun, 01-29-12, 10:41

Sorry one more thing i don;t know if ur bro in law is guilty-and if he was falsely accused i hope they clear his name--but depending what law he practices his involvement could be approving certain permits/legal stuff--so much could be done at his real job-no one is going to open a child prosittuion ring and call it by what it is-it would be disguised as something else/nothing most people would even pay attention too. SIckos come in all classes-u even got lawyers, doctors, police that are shady -sick and involved in that stuff. if he was a gambler-his money could be lost or he could have them in offshore accounts or something shade. i;d let police investigate but don;t be surprised by anything they may/may not find.

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By JessicaC on Sun, 01-29-12, 10:50

I'm suprised by NOTHING in that family anymore. The prosecution kind of got themselves in trouble... the prosecution publicized EVERYTHING the day he was accused, they went on and on about how this was open and shut and called him a pervert in the news and told everyone he had offshore accounts and were patting themselves onthe back for having caught this big case in a little town... but then they started backpeddling saying they shouldn't have released all of that information and how he hadn't been found guilty of anything and how preliminary review of evidence wasn't finding anything and they had no evidence of any offshore accounts... so now they are going through the computer for traces of any kind of history of internet searches or anything they could use...

So I'm really thinking it's bogus... but yeah like I said nothing suprises me anymore in that family... and the genetics issue TERRIFIES me.. thank God for Alanon... get myself ready now... I look at my sweet babies and I can't imagine them doing this kind of stuff... but I'm sure my MIL 34 years ago looked at her sweet boys and thought the exact same thing

I was about to do something awesome again, but I told myself, "Enough is enough! That's plenty of awesome for one day."

"They say that marriage is about making two lives into one... nobody told me that meant we both would end up becoming HIM"

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By MaluLani on Sun, 01-29-12, 15:48

If it is all bogus i feel sorry for ur brother in law=because his name will be deframed even if proven innocent. ALso sorry to bring up genetics--enviornment plays a huge factor--in other posts u mentioned ur MIL being an enabler etc--so your boys are blessed to have a wonderful mom-be taught good values & be in a healthy home/environment so i think they will grow up just fine. Moms really do have tons of influence on their kids development-in my opinion even more then dads

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By MaluLani on Sun, 01-29-12, 15:57

Also i really don';t know if javi -my husband had any first hand knowledge of/or involvement in human trafficing. he was friendly w. a gang member/higher level guy so more of a bussiness man dirtbag who once spoke about that-but it was all said in joke form-he's friends use to joke that i was so young/joke that he was child molestor-not at all funny thing to joke about but these particular friends were scummy-and only illegal thing i know javier particapted in was gambling, hiring friend's of his construction companies--even if they were none union-and buying drugs-so i dont want to deframe his dead name-not that he had much integrity at all. ALl i ment is human trafficing is a huge global problem-is us it is often overlooked bc the "girls" are usually poor/lower members of society--and people assume it is just street folks like pimps responsible for selling/buying girls & boys--which many pimps are involved in it-but there are also wealthy--normal-good standing citizens who have really shaddy secret lives. just saddens me to all the crap in this world/

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