Goddam, people. I know that the law is the law, but let’s try to have a little fucking perspective here, okay? Essentially, Chrissy and Michael are having to dish out money for their father’s sexual abuse. C’mon! This is bullshit. Haven’t these people been traumatized enough (I speak from experience…I am a victim of sexual abuse myself) without having to pay expenses brought on because of it? This is why this country’s going fucking downhill. No one with any iota of intelligence in some sort of a judicial or prominent position friggin’ THINKS anymore. Seems to me that sometimes the law should be a little sympathetic to the plights that people have to go through. Fucking charging these people for the pain they were exposed to is completely asinine.
Does anyone else see the injustice in this law besides the point of their being victims?
Let’s look at this without the sexual assault part.
Two kids 18 and 21 just starting out in life. Going to college, or living in an apartment etc. Have a 40 year old father who becomes unable to function in society. He goes around scaring people in the park or something. He is commited to a mental institution. His KIDS are expected to pay for this? I can understand seizeing his assets and paying for the treatment from his funds, but the KIDS?
What if they were 12 and 15?
What if they lived out of state?
What if he was just a little depressed. Checked in to an institution for a week, then failed to pay? Would they be liable?
What if he were a deadbeat dad that they have never met?
What if he were a brother instead? Or Grandparent? Or Uncle? Or cousin?
Where does the state get off holding others responsible for another adults actions and problems.
It is particularly heinous that they are being force to pay when the reason he is in is because of his assault on them.
This law means that no matter what I do, I can be held responsible for the actions and illness of any of my relatives, no matter how estraged.