Anybody watch Dr. Phil today?

mckayleesmom wrote: Todays episode was about a grandfather that got caught molesting his 4 year old grandaughter and the little girl told the grandmother about it and she just let it go.
The parents found out a while later when the mom was talking to the little girl and telling her to tell someone if anyone ever touches her and the little girl said "I did, I told grandma"....

I was about to puke watching the grandma hold her husbands hand like he really didn't do anything wrong. Then hearing them say that they think the grandpa should be trusted alone with the girl again was laughable.

Brias3 replied: I didn't catch the episode but how sad!

luvmykids replied: I didn't see it but WTH is wrong with those people? How terribly sad for the little girl to have told her grandmother who should be considered a "trusted" adult and have it ignored

amymom replied: I didn't watch it but it was on (MIL was watching) and I heard the grandfather admit to some gross stuff. I wish my MIL would have turned it off, I was getting physically ill with what little I heard. Makes me want to scream!!!!!

kimberley replied: that is sad i didn't see the show and glad i didn't.

i actually lived this situation with my grandmother and step grandfather. my grandmother had the same reaction... denial. it was too ugly to believe that the man she chose to marry could be such a monster and right under her nose. her generation didn't talk about things and she just wasn't emotionally equipped to face that reality head on. he has since passed but my sis and i understood why my grandma acted the way she did.. deep down, she does know we didn't lie. my mother on the other hand is so filled with angst and hatred over this, she is destroying herself. i tried to tell her that my sis and i have both made peace with the situation and it happened to us, so she needs to let it go. she just can't.. but i guess that is not surprising since she STILL hates my dad and they divorced over 22 years ago

ZandersMama replied: (((((kimberly)))))))))

It's amazing how far peple will go to protect such monsters.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: It was a topic for me that hits too close for comfort too. My best friend's mom is living with the man who molested her little sister-she knows and ignores it as well. We reported them and they were found guilty but only ordered counciling-it makes me want to puke! I couldn't get through the entire show...it was enough to know that that little girl's mom and dad were keeping her safe.

I do have one question though-In the beginning the parents said he had cried for his dad but not the child...That bothered me (any sympathy for a child molestor does) but did Dr. Phil address that with them futher? He kinda bugged me....

jcc64 replied: Unfortunately, it's much more common than you think.

stella6979 replied: I meant to watch it, but only caught the tail end of it. In my opinion, the Grandma is just as guilty as the Grandpa. How could you know, and not say anything or do anything about it? It makes me wonder if she enjoys molesting kids as well. And all during the show she's holding his hand and comforting him. What a sick and twisted couple that is. All I know is if ANYONE touched Avery, and that includes Uncles, Grandpas, whomever, they better hope to God that someone is there to protect them, cause I'm not so sure they'd survive.

mckayleesmom replied:
Abbie...I was wondering that too....I think that he is really torn.....I can't imagine how it would feel to find out your father did something like that.


Also....I think that Dr.Phil needs to ask that little girls father if he was also a victim of his dads molesting. Alot of times victims have an emotional tie to their predator and would feel bad if anyone found out about their secret......The dads actions to me are suspicios and make me wonder if he was also a victim of his father.

Think about it....that old man is how old and do you really think that little girl was his first victim?

coasterqueen replied: This pretty much happened to one of my best friends when she was a very little girl. Very sad.

HuskerMom replied: How disgusting! Poor little girl!

Cece00 replied: I would be on the DNA to prosecute the grandmother just as much as the grandfather. That is disgusting. I love my husband, but if he ever did something like that to our kids, he better hope the cops get to him before I do.

Jackie012007 replied: I was flipping through and caught most of it - it made me sick, especially since I now have a little girl of my own. He was so self-righteous, telling Phil that he was a victim and "the devil made me do it", "I thought she would like it", etc. Creep! And I agree the grandmother is an even bigger creep - how can she stand to be in the same roomw ith that man, never mind the same bed and hold his hand and all that.