A Religious Man from Quartzsite
Introduction. I once knew a man from Quartzsite. He was a religious man. Strange and uncanny. My mother married this man.
The discovery. My phone rang one morning. It was my mother. There was a problem at her new home. The religious man discovered a perversion in the attic. Sexually explicit material. Of minors. The authorities were contacted.
A bizarre relationship. The religious man had a daughter. She was a teenager. The religious man made a statement. Insightful and odd. “I like to roll around and tickle my daughter.” The teenage daughter responded even more oddly. “A girl’s first love is her father.” Bizarre.
The facts. The religious man was charged with battery in 2005 The religious man was charged with battery in 2007. The religious man was charged with under the age of 11 child molestation in 2014.