Location: Savannah, GA
This is very disturbing, please brace yourself. I’m trying to figure out my options to deal with this carefully and FAST. I will call the deranged ex step father “D.”
My mother is in a state of mental collapse. The man she was married to for 5 years has turned out to be a sociopath, and what he first confessed to be rape and torture fantasies+porn turned into the most recent confession, less than 48 hours after their divorce finalized, that he has been sporadically raping children in the area for the past 3 years of their living here. He gave details, said that it’s all operations ran through the deep web that he’s been paying for. He gets an address, usually a suburban home he said, where he can go and perform the acts on a trafficked child. D said his reason for confessing is that he’s tired of doing this and he wants to speak out against everything he knows. It’s a bizarre reason to me that is beyond fishy to me.
My mom wanted D to confess to a family friend for a second pair of ears, our preacher, and he did. The preacher’s wife overheard and she’s a school teacher so she freaked out and called the police immediately, reporting a “suspected child molester.” But just hours later, D turns around and tells both the preacher friend and my mom that none of it was true- just like he first said about the rape porn, prostitutes, etc. NOBODY believes him, and my mom calls BS and D says it’s true he’s just scared about the legal consequences.
So it’s very likely that when the police called D, he told them none of it was true. And supposedly D threw his second phone away a few days ago. Thing is, why would he make this all up? every confession previously had factual evidence to prove it true. We know for a fact he was using both the deep web and VPNs. We know for a fact he was meeting with prostitutes almost daily while “working.” My mother went to get tested after he revealed these things and she in fact had an STI.
So right now, as her son I’m trying to figure out what I can do, because both my mom and the family friend are in severe cognitive dissonance and are praying the police are handling it. But it’s almost certain he’s going to tell them something different, and nobody recorded the confession. And we have no evidence.
Do I send an FBI tip even without evidence, but with three witnesses? Should I call the FBI? Do we call the local police to check the status of the report? I’m horrified, and I feel complicit every second that he’s not arrested. I lived with the man for over 3 years and would’ve never possibly imagined this in my life, even if I was always 65% sure he was a sociopath incapable of human emotion.