Prayers, advice ANYTHING! much needed. We came home to a phone message from CJ's neice...27 years old, not close. We were close to her and her siblings for a couple of years when we got married, but then contact died out. (His brother and their mom are long divorced).
Well today she called to accuse CJ of "molesting" her and her little sister when they were kids. It just didn't happen. Even her timelines are questionable (when she's the age she said she was, CJ had moved out, parents didn't own the house she said it happened in).
She's very disturbed ($400 in psych meds a month, counselling, lost custody of her three kids) and broke and looking for a payout. She was quite unhappy to learn that CJ had lost his job. But was sure we'd manage "somehow".
I had to insist she wait until Friday (when we see our counsellor), she wanted to press charges right away!
Can people do this? (Remember I'm in Canada). Just make an accusation like that and have someone hauled away and charged???
She says she just wants an apology, but how can he apologize for an atrocity he didn't commit???? And I get the sense that an apology would just be used as "proof" that he did it.
Ugh!!! People could the timing be any worse? (Wait...a few months ago...).
So pray for us. It's unlikely she'd have the money to actually sue CJ, but what a horrid thing to accuse someone of?
Oh yeah, she was raped at 15, but she's not going after that guy because "he has no money and there wasn't enough proof". Her proof here? Her word and her sister's word (separate incidents according to them) against CJ's.
