my childhood neighbor died recently he was a nice man, told me silly stories, kept an eye on our house when we traveled he spent the last few decades being taken advantage of by a handful of local scumbags -- his own kids lived in another state and couldn't stop it
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I'm vague on the details since I was so young but over the years I've learned that the rotating cast of women and children who lived with him off and on were abusing him financially he let it happen, at first; when it started he was young enough to stop it
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when he finally tried to set boundaries, one of the women threatened to report him for sexually assaulting her young daughters I was alone with him, or with other girls and no other adults, for hours at a time, multiple times over the years he never did a damn thing to us
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he let us dig holes in his backyard (the one and only time I ate a worm) he was just a nice old guy with a pension and a few assets, and those two families sucked him dry the last time I saw him he wasn't quite all there anymore
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I think my parents called adult services to report elder abuse I think his own adult children did, too I don't think anything came of it the families would drop in and out of his life, possibly related to the abuse investigations I hate it
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I was pretty close to one of the daughters growing up my mom babysat for one of the women before she figured out how screwed up things really were every now and then that woman, K, calls my mom up with the local white trash gossip
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she was the lesser of the two evils just kinda dumb, pretty abused herself when she was a kid, two kids by two men who were in and out of jail the other woman was more malicious, calculating, actively abusive herself idk I'm glad I was only adjacent to that kind of life
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Related: I'm following up today w our lawyer re getting conservatorship over FIL who is in EXACTLY this situation. 
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