How would you handle this?

[Bay Boy]

8. To all who said...

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...I should leave it up to my son, I agree. It's just this being a new revelation to me it put me in 'Dad of a 12 year old' mode and I was wanting to protect the 12 year old boy who has long since grown up.

A follow up story: Several years later my son went to spend the night with this same boy. The next day the dad said he was going to take them out for breakfast. But instead of going for breakfast he took them to church (a different church because they were now in a new town). My son called home home asking for a ride home and hid in the bathroom till my wife got there. We didn't know the significance of this at the time but it is now obvious that it was because of his previously being traumatized. This makes me wonder if the dad had any part in the first story I mentioned.

If the first church guy's plan was to encourage my son to become more religious that certainly back fired.