Dazed and Confused

I received a call earlier this evening that was very disturbing.  An old client of mine I did for years and felt friends with at the time had been arrested and jailed after a 14-year old student of hers told authorities she had sex with him.  She is charged with aggravated child molestation, three counts of child molestation, statutory rape, enticing a child for indecent purposes, sexual assault by a person with supervisory or disciplinary authority, two counts computer or electronic child exploitation, sexual explointation of children, and six counts of furnishing harmful material to minors!  Whew!  Apparently, she was using Facebook and other electronic devices to communicate with this child. 
I knew this woman very well for years.  She has a wonderful husband and two beautiful children!  It baffles me that she would even be capable of doing something of this magnitude!!!  I am having a hard time believing this to be true of her, but authorities wouldn't have arrested and/or charged her with all of the above without some sort of evidence.
 
So unbelievingly, I did the only thing I knew to do.  I called Freda.  I know she would know how to find out and who to talk to.  She said she'd do some 'investigating' of her own and call me back.  When she did call, it was as bad as it sounded.  She said she'd been arrested for all the charges plus more to come and that the boy was raped, the sex nonconsentual!  Ugh!  She also said it began during the summer.  All of which is just confusing!  If it 'began' during the summer, that statement insinuates it went on for a while.  If the boy was 'raped' and nonconsentual, why would he continue a relationship with her?  I think there is still more to come and the facts haven't come out because the boy is a minor.  I am just dumbfounded this has happened so close to home!  I am saddened for her husband and children, for they are the people who will suffer the most.  So very, very sad.

On another note, I started writing a novel.  It's a romcom with only 5 pages and just under 3000 words, but I've at least started.  I've had a "little voice" telling me to write a book and have talked about it for years!  I just decided to start writing and see where I end up!  Hopefully it will be on a best sellers list one day, we'll see...