Dear Shipp:

It is since your 11/18 posts only that I started to get to know you as a mother and a sort-of step mother to Emmet’s teenagers/ very young adults. Before that, I knew you as Shipp the child-abuse victim on the path of healing.

Your complete lack of compassion for Emmet’s kids is devastating to me. You wrote nothing positive about them and placed them all under the “lying, cheating, stealing, lazy, messed up on drugs behavior” umbrella.

You wrote in your last post: “Two kids (Brit included) love (Emmet) and either here everyday to help or show their support.” But two days ago you wrote about Brit: “She and Emmett don’t and won’t make the effort to be closer to each other.” So where is that love.

You were also verbally abusive to Brit a couple of days ago: “I went off. I told her (and I’m omitting all the cuss words but you can probably guess where they fit in.”

I am against child abuse, not only the abuse you suffered but also the abuse Emmet’s children suffer as well as your daughter Brit.

What can I say? I am devastated by my reading of these last two days.

anita