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
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Comments 56
"the british accent should have been a warning"
right, because NO ONE with a foreign accent EVER attends American schools.
does any writer on the Stir ever think before scriblling their "articles"?
who did the Brit mess with to be called a pedophile? this is statutory rape, not pedophilia or child molestation
Sorry to say, but this was grossly inappropriate on the mother's part. Folks, the number ONE job for all of us as parents is to protect our children! If we aren't going to do that, we ought to turn in our "parent card". No strangers in the house with our children - period. What was she possibly thinking?
I really don't think that the story is like you said it...probably he faked to be an exchange student, maybe he had an accomplice to help out with the scam, I really really doubt that a guy from the internet just called this woman saying hi was a 17year old kid with cancer and please can I come live with you...
I personally have friends and family as cops or detectives and tell me alot of what to look for cause I have 2 Autistic adults that are nonverbal. One boy and one girl. So I would of caught the fishyness. And they tell me alot of what to look for because I am a single mom and with both of them with me all the time, they alert me of new things that have came up and what to look for so that I can be more aware of anyone looking at them. My Autistic adults dont get on the internet cause that is not their interest and thank GOD for that but I still have to watch their back plus mine when we go out into the community.