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23
May 2006
Teri
Hatcher's Dad Accepts
Blame For
Molestation
Teri
Hatcher's
father has accepted his
part in the actress'
child molestation hell,
admitting to the
Desperate Housewives
star he should have been
more affectionate
towards her.
The
actress stunned her
parents when she came
forward to testify
against her uncle
Richard Hayes Stone
after he was linked to
the suicide of teenager
Sarah Van Cleemput in
2002.
Stone
was accused of molesting
the 14-year-old in 2002
but there wasn't enough
evidence to jail the
pervert until Teri
Hatcher plucked up the
courage to come forward
and reveal her uncle had
molested her as a
child.
Teri
Hatcher insisted on
anonymity when she
testified against Stone,
but she recently went
public about the ordeal
in an interview with
Vanity
Fair
- and that prompted her
to sit down and talk to
her parents about the
whole thing.
And
she was left speechless
when her father blamed
himself, in part, for
childhood problems that
led to her molestation
hell.
She
says, "He said that he
really consciously,
because of his
upbringing, withheld
affection from me
because he didn't want
me to be a brat. He told
me, 'I feel now that if
I hadn't done that,
maybe you wouldn't be
such an open victim to
somebody giving you
attention.' It was a
great jumping-off point
between us. I genuinely
wanted to hug my father
and my mother. It felt
like a great release and
a great
feeling."
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