02/05/2025
This came up as a memory today, but instead of sharing it, I wanted to post it as a new post because the reality isâŠ. This could be still happening in todayâs day and age and Iâm almost positive it is. I met this man off the internet back in the 90s when the internet was still emerging, so now with the internet being a part of everyoneâs lives⊠I know for certain young women are meeting men just like this and this is a warning to mothers and children a like.. that people like this exist and sometimes we think oh itâs just a nerdy lonely older guy who wants friends and we accept it cuz we want the rides, the alcohol, the w**d or whatever else they lure you with .. but as you can see after you read this story, this man and many like him have much more sinister motives.
STORYTIME:
When I was younger, I met a man on the internet who at the time we didnât realize but he was clearly a child predator. He was from the same town as me, Point Pleasant and I met him on this local chat site. When we met him I was about 13 & he was in his early 30s. At first he would just give us rides places and we kinda used him for rides (sounds messed up but hey we were kids and thatâs what kids do sometimes lol) to places because none of us could drive.
As time passed, things turned very dark. He began renting hotel rooms and purchasing alcohol and drugs for us to âpartyâ with and then started to sexually proposition many of my friends and then ultimately turned to stalking. He became extremely unstable and we really did fear for some of our lives, especially the friend he would follow home from school and sit outside her bedroom window.
He even would bring us into strip clubs and introduced us to st*****rs, I think in a way he was trying to groom us by showing us this type of stuff. Even wanted one of my friends who was like 15 or 16 at the time to work there, smh.
We finally got away from him after a FEW YEARS of basically grooming and keeping us enticed with free rides, alcohol and drugs and renting hotel rooms for âpartiesâ...
Only to find out years later, he murdered a teenage boy while high on drugs with a metal baseball bat. The boy was only 17 & this man was almost in his 50s.
I cried today thinking about it because I wish we had the knowledge or understanding that we do now when it comes to sexual abuse, grooming, predators etc. We always knew he was wrong and gross and scary but for whatever reason we never told our parents or the authorities. He would threaten us if we thought about mentioning our âsituationâ with us and I think we truly believed him so we never did.
I cried also because if only we truly knew the monster we were around and what was really happening to our group of friends, maybe something could have been done to keep this man from doing what he ultimately did years later to a 17 year old boy.
I try not to think about this dude often but for whatever reason today, it came up and I just broke down crying because I think of that 17 year old boy who he murdered and I just wish things were different when I was coming up and we had more knowledge and understanding about s**t.
This was a time where there wasnât Google, there wasnât even yahoo yet. I didnât even connect the dots to how diabolical this man truly was until I was well into my 20s and 30s and going to college taking psych classes and working in mental health.
This is exactly why children are the most vulnerable to this s**t, even in this day and age.
I often wonder how me or any of my friends ever made it out alive sometimes. Truly amazing.
Love you all who know what Iâm talking about and went thru this with me together â€ïž
DROP A COMMENT BELOW if you experienced anything like this as a teen as well. I know there are more of us out there and the more we talk about it and bring it to the light, we can educate parents and teenagers about the dangers of meeting people like this. And hopefully help or possibly even save someoneâs life. đ„čđ
