My family’s first dealings with the child molester, Floyd Rupple, were awkward. My father accepted his lying confession and with minimal consequences, kept him in the family. Even to the extent of allowing continued access to his victim.
When he should/would have been in prison, he was free to go about as though it never happened. Floyd’s kids Nathan, Alex, Ashley, Victoria and Allyson have only their aunt Suzanne’s silence over the years to thank for the apparent normalcy of their childhood.
Amy chose to stay with the pedophile, even to the extent of having two more children by him. While she eventually divorced him, the reasons are not clear.
But even with this awful past, eventually some in the family woke up. Of course, we missed prosecuting the criminal by a couple years. But our actions had their effect. Noise was made. His employer jumped. His neighbors screamed.
And recovery would have been nearly complete, but for Amy Rubei. What we didn’t understand was that after all these years of living her lie, Amy was willing to split the family over whether a pedophile could be treated as a pedophile. You don’t get permission to enter Amy’s sphere unless you genuflect to her pervert.
I can understand enabling someone to recover from awful behavior. But as with alcoholics, the first step is to acknowledge and own your problem. Which is where Floyd may have started. But after living in Amy’s lie for all these years, something changed. He was emboldened.
Floyd spent thousands of dollars on Amy’s fantasy. Floyd pleaded with the judge to muzzle me in order to keep alive that fantasy. Floyd Rupple even became a criminal liar. I have the proof here. He denies each and every account of his sexual molestation of Suzanne. But those dollars were wasted. The judge ruled that we’re free to publicly shout “PEDOPHILE” in Floyd Rupple’s locale.
We now see that Amy encourages and enables this lie. It was a sure progression from a crying confession through denial to a judge. Amy has masterfully manipulated the pedophile.