Aug 25, 2011
It is interesting, and worth noting that Dean's parents have appealed to the media on their own sort of PR campaign to get him out of jail. Even after so many people have come forward with stories of how Dean has hurt them, his mother says he's harmless, never fights (actually this might be true...because when I knew him he was pretty cowardly....but I don't believe that his jailhouse beating was technically a fight. The Sheriff says he popped his own cell door when he wasn't supposed to, and then got beaten up. So Marilyn, I'll hand you that one. Dean doesn't fight. But he does think the rules - both inside the jail, and on the outside - don't apply to him), and uses his "social media addiction" as a security blanket. It's generally accepted by both social codes of morality and THE LAW, that sex with girls who are teenagers when you are a grown man is NOT HARMLESS. In fact, in the eyes of the law that is predatory behavior. Regardless of the crimes of rape (and please don't think I am dismissing these crimes as insignificant...they just have not YET been proven), if Dean is even having consensual sex with these teenagers, repeatedly and obsessively contacting them by text or social media, attempting to photograph them in various shades of undress by misleading them into thinking he is a legit photographer or agent, lurking in coffee shops to pick up high school girls....ALL of this while he's a grown man....I would implore his family to recognize that these behaviors are NOT HARMLESS. They are in fact, indicative of deep issues and imbalance. I suppose that the current attempts by the Kellys to paint their son's crimes with rose colored hues is in fact a large part of why he has grown into such an utterly depraved man. Marilyn and Jerry Kelly are well aware of the other times Dean has been arrested and questioned by the law over the years. Each of these incidents have been related to Dean trying to gain access to girls by using false pretenses (I'm sensing a theme). And it is actually illegal. (Fraud and Impersonation are just a couple of legal offenses that come to mind). And normal men don't keep having these run-ins with the law. These parents are the ones who have witnessed his harmful behavior for many, many years. They know he creates fake businesses to lure girls to their home. They know he keeps multiple cell phones and fake identities. They know he steals compulsively. They know he's lied about so many details of his life for so many years that he can't even keep track of reality. They know about his reckless sexual encounters, without a care for the multiple harmful consequences of unprotected sex (I'm talking pregnancies and STDs here. Again, I question their use of the word "harmless"). So as each of these new charges rolls in, from the young girls saying he raped them (mom & dad WHY does it not bother you that your son was having sex with teenagers? He is 40!), child porn on his computer, giving underage girls alcohol....and on, and on....the very fact that they are going on the media offensive to protect their son is very telling. It perhaps is enought to explain why he's in this mess in the first place. There doesn't seem to be a moral compass in the parents either.