Battle Of The Courts Part 3

Chapter 204-2

Battle Of The Courts

Part 3

 

I wanted to shout back, get used to those handcuffs Susan, but I knew better than anger her even further, besides who knew she most likely thought it was the highlight of her day. I knew was for me, knowing how my mother was going to feel about her being suspended from school, can you say grounded? And all I had to do was walk away and keep my mouth shut, which was exactly what I did.

I knew for a fact Susan would have to wait until Officer Delaney was done here before Susan could leave the school because my mother wouldn’t be home until Jennie brought her home, which means she gets to ride in back of a police car and explain to my father what happened today, hell he’ll might even take pity on her, but my mother won't.

My father doesn’t have a car, nor does he drive do to his very poor eyes sight; that not even glasses would help because of the car accident he was in. I questioned many times if that why he was so angry all the time, but the thing was as far back as I could remember he was always a cruel man, the accident happened when I was 7 and made him even meaner.

It took almost three hours, but my car sounded really good, and the engine looked great with a nice clean look and a couple of cans of spray paint you would think it was a brand new engine. Tony let me drive it all the way back to the Knox house with him tailing us in the police car with Susan in the back of it. Man, she looked pissed I kept going as he dropped her off at the church house, man I wanted to see his face when she got out of the police car wearing a pair of handcuffs.

I knew it wasn’t his idea to have those boys pick a fight with me. She didn’t even know about my plans today to have lunch with my friends and work on my car at the school's shop. She took it upon herself to bribe those boys with some cash, which she had stolen from my mother’s purse. She tried to blame Becky for it saying she got the money from her, but Becky hadn’t given her the money she still had on her and was planning to go out with her friends after school today and gotten permission from my mother.

My mother was furious when she got home; according to Officer Knox when he called Mrs. Cranny to tell my mother that Susan had taken the money that was supposed to go back into her checking account courtesy of Jennie, which was close to hundred 150.00. Becky had only 60 dollars that Bishop Earl had given her for the work she had done, even though she really didn’t earn it. So there was no way she could given the boys all that cash.

We are all told to come down to the police station which was a neutral place full of cops, so we could work out who stole the money because apparently Susan blamed me for the missing cash in my mother’s purse and wanted to know who started the fight and why and also why Susan was being suspended which she also blamed me for.

Mom asked one simple question. Why would I steal the money when I had my own and access to it anytime I wanted? Susan said. “Because he is trying to get me in trouble again, we know he did it look in his wallet.” I gladly handed to the officer with a bunch of receipts including a bank receipt to explain every penny I had in my wallet. Stringum and Dad taught me to always keep your receipts until you can account for every penny. Susan gasped seeing all that cash and a fist full of receipts, having some call the bank a give them an early bank statement.

Susan said. “Look Mom and Dad he took the money and there it is.” One of the officers placed down a tally sheet and crossed out with a black marker of my remaining balance in my account. Which didn’t go very well when Susan and my father demand to see it, being told no it was none of their business how much money I had in my account. What was important was the transactions. Yet it was all there in black and white. Susan still blamed me since Becky didn’t have the money that was missing from my mother’s purse.

My mother said. “Yea right, kind of hard steal something when your not home to do it.” She grounded her and my father as usual underground her, just to piss her off. But being suspended from school for the rest of the week did nothing more than a slap on the wrist as he still charged me and my friends for the alleged rape charges, and breaking the restraining order. Stating that he didn’t care if it was a public place full of people, I still broke the law and so did the Earls.

Yet the law was on our side there was a cop present at all times to make sure we didn’t break the restraining order, my father didn’t care and ended by saying. “We will see you in court.”

I smiled and said. “Looking forward to it;” and walked away and hopped into Officer Knox’s police car riding in the front seat.

I asked if I could turn the siren he smiled and said. “Knock yourself out.”

It was a little surprised when my mother came down to Knox’s place and pulled up to the house. Mrs. Knox invited my mother over for a free massage and dinner. She said. “I told your father to shove it.” The moment she came into the house telling Mrs. Knox everything smelled good. My mother said my father instead of that she be going to work with him for the rest of the week while she was out of school. Susan didn’t care about grades even though she was assigned homework and take a home test; my mother doubted she would do it.

I wanted to say because you let her get away with it, but it would solve nothing so I kept my mouth shut. And worked on mine as the girls worked on dinner as my mother went down the hall to get her free massage while she waited for Jennie to finish giving her statement and join us for dinner. My mother would be going home with her, leaving me the car just to piss my father off. Besides Aaron was with Bishop Clark so it was up to my father and my sisters to fend for themselves.

Personally, it was a cop-out; because she once again left Aaron to his own devices, it didn’t even bother her that my father ruined all his clothes just like he had done with mine. She shrugged her shoulders said, “Bishop Clark will see that they are replaced.” I knew she was right, but you would think she would care just a little, but it was no skin off her noses, she wasn’t forking out the money out of her pocket.

Yet the most important thing that happened today, while I was dealing with things down at the police station; the Knox boys were learning all about girls hadn’t come out of their bedroom. I knew they had taken my advice seeing two pairs of girls shoes when I came in and they didn’t belong to our wives, and the extra car, plus the howling screams and giggles coming from inside the bedroom could only mean one thing; it was nearly supper time when the door opened as they came into the kitchen wearing nothing but a robe with smiles on their faces.

Their Dad smiled and reminded them it was a school night. The girls looked at me and Eli. Daren leaned down and whispered in my ear they wanted to play blind man. I said I didn’t know that game. He smiled asked his Dad. “Dad Eric and Eli say they have never played blind man.”

Mr. Knox looked up and smiled and rolled his eyes, said. “I think we can do that.” He got up and left the door and I heard Mrs. Knox giggle.

My mother quickly picked up the phone asking for Jennie because she should have been her by now. To tell Jennie she would be spending the night here instead of going back with her. She said. “Oh is that so, well tell my husband he can go straight to hell. Never mind I’ll do that myself and I’ll see you in the morning.” She hung up the phone and said. “Jim just took out another restraining order stating the Cranny’s can not come within boundaries of Santaquin or Payson. Stating Jennie just tried to rape him as she was about to leave the police station.

“Stating she was all over him as she tried to rip his clothes off in the woman’s restroom forcing him into the woman’s stall, and Paul has been charged of raping Susan and Becky for the last few months. Right now she is being fingerprinted and booked and she had to post bail so she could go home to her kids. So if you’ll excuse me I have a man to kill and set straight. I’ll have to take a rain check on dinner and the game for family home evening.”

She grabbed her shoes and Mrs. Knox head for the door, said. “No Linda, as much as I would like you to kill that no good piece of horse dung. It would be better if you just stayed here. He wants you pissed off so he can claim you beat him up. We will call the station and have one of the officers go up with you so you can pack a few things. Now take a seat, dinner is just about ready.”

My mother growled. “fine,” and took a seat at the table.

Mr. Knox said. “Everything will be just fine.”

Mother said. “Yea right? Susan knows that Becky has been having sex with Paul, so does Jennie, but so have I many times, but Susan, not a chance and she knows it. She just angry because every boy, in school, has refused to and call her the Ice Queen because the moment they refuse her she gets them into trouble stating that they tried to rape her.

“Paul did offer as a courtesy to me hoping to curve her anger because no boy would have her, but she refused stating she doesn’t what our pity, and now because of that she going accuse him of rape so her father will think she is this innocent little girl that world has spurn her and treats her like the plague, blaming everyone else but herself.”

Mr. Knox didn’t say anything but we were all thinking about it as we looked at my mother. Thinking… Who does this sound like? Knowing it would solve nothing if we told her like mother like daughter. He only asked how old Becky was and cringed when she said 14.

Mrs. Knox said it for us. “And you gave Becky permission to have sex with boys, as well as this man Paul?”

My mother said. “Yes. What’s wrong with that? I was her age when I was having sex, besides it was consensual and she can’t get pregnant she doesn’t have the capability to have children, so what’s the big deal?”

Mrs. Knox said. “She 14 Linda, she probably doesn’t have a training bra yet.”

My mother said. “And the point is?” She rubbed her face with her hands.

Mrs. Knox said.  “I've changed my mind.” and picked up the phone, “Yes I need a police escort to take Linda Shepherd home, so she pack and escorts her to Mrs. Cranny’s house. Yes, that will be fine.” She hung up the phone and said. “They’ll be here in a few minutes. I am sorry Linda but I don’t want you in this house, when you think it’s ok that you told your daughter who is 14 that is ok to have sex with men, most likely three times her age because she can’t get pregnant. Consensual or not; that is still considered rape where I come from. I don’t even allow my boys to have sex until they are least 15 or 16, sharing a penis is one thing, but sex is a whole different matter.

“So I am asking nicely to get out of my house. Until after we have cleared your son... of your husband and daughters charges. And even then I question if I want anything to do with you, you’re lucky his caseworker doesn’t know this because I have no doubt she would remove your children from the home.

“You better pray that  Judge doesn’t find out if I was you I would have long talk with your daughter Becky and end this and make sure nobody finds out. I don’t care if she can’t get pregnant. She shouldn’t be having sex with a man, a boy I could understand, but a man three times her age just shouldn’t be done.”

There was a knock on the door as two officers stepped in. No one said anything as my mother quickly put on her shoes and left. She said. “I am sorry, I really, really am.” She turned to the officers. “Take me home; I just need to collect a few things. I’ll do what you ask and be back to make sure this mess goes away.”

Mrs. Knox closed the door and said. “I can’t believe it. how can a mother let her 14-year-old daughter have sex with a man, 3 times his age, Please god tell me she didn’t sell her daughters for prostitution?” Her husband and I cringed.

She took a seat at the table and said. “Ok so, things just got a little more complicated.” We had just started eating when the doorbell rang. Mrs. Knox opened the door and the police officer said. “Mrs. and Mr. Knox you have just been served for harboring, a rapist charging are charging Eric Rothwell and Eli Alden for an assault and battery; of said Paul Cranny.” She growled and ripped opened the warrant and looked straight at me and Eli. It reading it for her self finding it was indeed from Paul Cranny, accusing us of rapping him and beating him up.

I said. “The day just gets better and better.”

She slammed the door shut and said. “Ok, not that I believe it, I think you boys have a little explaining to do.”

Eli said. “It’s not quite the way I remember it.”

She dropped her fork when Eli and I explained what took place over at Paul’s house, which opened up to more questions. I said. “It’s ok Eli we can trust everyone here, it doesn’t matter anymore, no one can hurt me anymore and you know it.”

I quickly explained what had taken place from the time Gloria raped me. Leaving out the Benson's altogether adding a few details regarding what the High Bishops men did to me, and Eli added the details of his life growing up inside the church as the girls filled in how some of them felt in regards to woman, causing Mrs. Knox to gasp like a fish.

Mr. Knox asked me if my caseworker knew about this or my mother, adoptive parents or my grandmother or even Bishop Earl. I said. “Yes and no and only to a certain point in regards to my grandmother. But Bishop Earl knows everything and so does all the people that are helping us take down the satanic church. Everyone else like my casework is under witness protection and classified on the needs to know biases or for your own eyes category.”

Mr. Knox said. “Well… Wednesday is going to be a very interesting day. So let me get this straight. Your mother told Paul and his wife about it so Paul thought he had right to do it, because everyone else had regardless if you did so to keep yourselves alive, knowing the moment you said no or refused to let them rape you they would kill you and everyone that you know?”

I said. “That sounds about right, but Paul is the one that should be charged with rape, He not only had sex with Shawn and Arthur he has been having sex with his own sons and we have been told by them that he has moved on to their friends and some of the fathers, but we don’t have any proof as of yet. So we can’t have him arrested for speculation; and just because he tried to rape me and Eli last week, he’ll get away with it because once the doctor exams us he’ll find that Eli and I have been raped multiple times?”

Mr. Knox said. “Well then, this could work in our favor, do have Cranny’s number?”

I said yes.

He said. “Even though I hate the idea of Becky having sex with Paul, I think if your mother puts an end to it. We might be able to save her a*s from the fire, so she doesn’t lose custody of Aaron or her daughters. I rather have her raise them then your father or worst the state foster care system.

“We will tell Paul if he denies and dismisses the rape charges against you and Eli, we won’t tell anyone about him having sex with a 14-year-old girl. And I then I will send someone to investigate his boys and their friends. Then when we have enough proof we will slap the cuffs on him so fast he won’t know what hit him. Then we will add the other one once we have everything and he’ll be facing multiple rape charges, including Becky’s.”

His wife said. “I can live with that, but remind him if touches Becky or thinks about touching Susan he is going down hard for it and gloves are come off the moment he tries to pen this on us and the boys. This ends once and for all.”

He nodded and picked up the phone. He said. “Yes I like to speak to your husband Mrs. Cranny, I have just received his little surprise package. Oh, I see, well he just accused Linda’s son Eric and his husband Eli of rapping him and beating the crap out of him at knife-point, when it was him that tried to rape the boys.

“That’s right, I see. So you knew about him trying to rape them, but Linda said it wasn’t a big deal because they were doing anyway while undercover. I see, well you should have informed the police of that when the moment you heard about him trying to rape them, they weren’t undercover then now were they?

“So I guess if I told you that he has been having sex with your to older boys you will dismiss that as well or the fact that he could be having sex with their friends when you are not home. Oh, you didn’t know? Well, you do now… It as has been going on for several months. So I am informing you that there will be an investigation to find out the truth of this matter.

“I was going to tell your husband if he dropped the bogus raped charges and the battery charges we wouldn’t mention the rape charges until we had proof, regarding forcing boys to have sex with him and him having sex with Linda’s daughter Becky, and I was going to inform him if he touches anyone again he will be brought up charges the moment he does. I am surprised that you didn’t stop her; being her best friend I had assumed you were a smart woman. Apparently not… Goodbye, I’ll see you all in court.”

He slammed the phone down on the hook and said. “She said the same thing your mother did, that Becky and your mother said wasn’t a big deal and it was all consensual so how could it be called rape? But she knew about Paul trying to rape you boys but dismissed from her mind that wasn’t a big deal because your mother said it happens all the time when you are together and undercover with your adoptive parents and your friends.

“Yet when it is her boys she was singing a whole different song and wanted to know how long it had been going on said I didn’t know other than a few months and was about to find out.” he sat down, “well that puts a damper on wanting to play blind man tonight so will finish dinner and go out to a movie instead.”

The girls called their parents but they wouldn’t let them go on a school night so the boys walked them to their car and lingered as they kissed them. Their mother smiled and said. “I was concerned for a minute when they didn’t bring any more friends home because their friends were embarrassed about seeing me and my husband naked having sex on the couch when they came home from school.” No one said anything as we all smiled, more so the boys as they gave Eli and me a fist bump.