Attention parents! When someone with a really weird story wants to move into your house, you might want to think twice before you say yes! Here's betting the mother of a 15-year-old boy stalked across an ocean by a 25-year-old British alleged child molester is wishing she had.
Police in St. Augustine, Florida say 25-year-old Michael Hunter came all the way from his home in Birmingham, England, to have sex with a 15-year-old American boy he'd met on the Internet. When he pretended to be 17-year-old Gary Johnson, a classmate with cancer, the 15-year-old's mom let the alleged pedophile move into their house.
Which part of this sounds bizarre to you? All of it?
Exactly!
I am wary about who comes into my house as it is. If they're actually moving in, and going to be around my kid, I want name, rank, and serial number. If something smells fishy, there's no way I'm sleeping easy with them in the house.
I'm going to give the mom here the benefit of the doubt. Kid -- or at least a guy who appears to be a kid -- tells you he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and your heart is bound to ache for him. Childhood cancer hits me right in the guts. And when a kid says they're having family strife, the first thing you think as a Mom is, "OK, how do I help?"
But if a kid has cancer, wouldn't you think staying WITH the parents would be best? I know I wouldn't take on the complicated mess of health care, especially not with something as serious as cancer.
And wouldn't you want to actually talk to a kid's parents before they move in? Any kid? Even one who doesn't have cancer? I'd want to let them know their kid is safe, for one. Not to mention, I'd be afraid of legal action if I suddenly took custody of someone else's minor child.
Oh, and there's that pesky British accent. Should have been a bit of warning. But hey, what do I know? The strangest person who has ever moved into my house for awhile was my brother.
Hunter, by the way, has been arrested and will be charged.
What kind of background check would you require before someone moved into your house? What if they were a "kid"?
Image via St. John's County Police
Tie-Dye for the Fourth of July!
Mom Survives Horrific Domestic Abuse
Kim and Kanye's Baby Name Predictions!
Moms Love Birthday Parties, Too!
Comments 56
sounds to me like her son was very much in on it and the Mom Was too busy being "cool"... However, My mom took in my best friend in high school when her mom threw her out when her mom started dating a 25 year old and they were fighting so much it became destructive... her mom threw all stuff in a trash bag on the lawn and she walked to the corner gas station and called my mom... I took in a neighbor kid when his parents threw him out for being gay... they were very religious and I had known this family for five years... We heard it all go down one night and the thought of him out on the street killed me..
That said, the mom should have done her checking into his story. I guess that he wasn't asking for money compelled her to let down her guard. Still, a certain amount of paranoia is healthy.
That Brit is gonna be hating life, British prisons are like kittens compared to the brutality of American prisons. Going in an looking like a young pretty white boy, his life will be hell. Not that I feel sorry for him, he brought it all on himself being a sick bastard!