Women’s restrooms

When my daughter was 4, I learned from my daughter that her grandfather was taking her into men’s restrooms. She had seen things she should not. The way I found out? My daughter began having nightmares and stopped wanting to go anywhere with her grandfather. I questioned her and she told me what she had seen. I was shocked and absolutely heartbroken for my little girl.

I calmly told her grandfather that I had to ask him something, because I would not be a good mother if I didn’t ask him about what my little girl told me. He confirmed what she told me and then he got angry at me for asking. I set some ground rules and they were very simple. No men’s restrooms and he refused to go into a women’s restroom. So I told him that he’d have to bring her home if she or he needed to use the restroom, until she was old enough to enter a ladies restroom on her own, since he refused to go in with her. Again…She was 4.

He visited her one more time and then he vanished.

He refused my request and disappeared.

Shameful and his anger was misdirected. I should have been angry at him for keeping that from me, instead he was angry at me for questioning him.

His actions caused my little girl to have nightmares for months. She saw things she should have never seen at that young age and she felt emotions she should never have been subjected to and then he stopped being in her life.

Natalie Mosley Klenotic