I’ve been watching the Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes story for sometime.  The latest is his daughter coming forward stating her father has always been good to her.

Well, I’d like to add to that equasion. My father was good to me too as I was growing up and I loved him very much.  As did my sisters.  However, that never stopped him from interfering with my daughters and other girls as well. I know he did something to some of my friends only I was too innocent at the time to understand what might have taken place. I look back now at things my friends said to me in my teens and realise that even then dad was exploring boundaries and what he might get away with, while not touching his daughters at all.

Just because a man was good to his immediate family, does not mean that surrounding family members or friends were safe – as Robert Hughes’ niece has shared.

I hope the exposure of this story will encourage others to come forward who have had such events happen in their lives. I know there are girls who my father touched who haven’t come forward and I wish they would.  He deserves to be dealt with accordingly.  It will bring closure to many.  And our daughter might not have died in vain.  At the moment the police can’t do anything unless someone comes forward to tell their story and confirm what we know to be true.

Postnote:  I only post here now when I feel I have something extra to say.  It is now almost 30 months since our daughter died and no more information has come to hand to explain what really happened on that last night of her life.  But now and then we get little tidbits of information shared by others that add another piece to the puzzle.  My father turned 77 today.  I live in another state from him and will probably never see him alive again.  To me, the father I grew up with and loved died years ago and was replaced by a monster and someone I don’t know or understand.  Mum says she doesn’t understand why we persist with our lies but when you’ve been married to someone as long as she has (54 years) I accept she needs to side with her husband.  I sometimes wonder just how much doubt is in the back of her mind.