NO KIDDFUKKER HERE

MYSTERY YOUNG MAN

I am still struggling with thoughts about a young person I assisted in Gladstone. A young man who told me he was 14 and homeless. He  had made the aquiantance of a 42 year old gay man calling him his uncle. This man was not his uncle and I was disturbed by his association with a minor.

I decided, based on what the young person told me, to assist him by taking him to child protection. I did this and he was interviewed privately before being asked to remain in the building. I was told nothing.

A couple of weeks later I saw the young person again and he told me he was living in a youth shelter. He would come to my house sometimes during the day.

Months passed and I started speaking out about the sexual inappropriateness of the man he called his uncle. I posted my opinion on Facebook. In Gladstone this man was watching my public Facebook posts and saw it. The young man took offence to it and punched me in the mouth outside Centrelink.

I reported the assault and the young man was charged.

But now I don't even believe this young man was a teenager at all. I believe he was man who went to primary school with me, and caught the same bus when I went to high school. So I think he was the same age as me but pretending to be a teenager.

Perhaps he found out I was moving to Gladstone from mutual school friends on Facebook. Things he knew about me may have enabled him to construct a persona that I would believe.

What makes me think he is actually a person I once knew is his bone structure, hair and eyes colour. And the way he we wears his clothes. And things he did to press my buttons which only my old school friend would know.

Like that I was friends with an older gay man when I was 14. Like that I got into a fight in year 8. Through his actions he seemed to have copied my past behaviour, mirroring it back at me to provoke my sympathy.

But at least twice, at the child protection office and when I had him charged with assault, there were occassions for his act to be exposed. But it wasn't. Child protection did not say that he was not who he said he was. The police did not tell me that he is not a teenager.

Does it matter if he was really my old primary school friend? Well I think so because I don't like being lied to. And the idea that he faked his age to me is pretty creepy and faking his entire life story is deceitful.

What did I do to deserve being stalked by my old school friend and neighbour? If I am right about this, why haven't the authorities or police told me he real identity?

This is so disturbing to me. Like he was an adult posing as a teenager just to see my reaction. Maybe he has a low intelligence and so pretends to be a teenager still to hide it. But it is so cunning to stalk me and lie about his identity. Almost evil.

After he was in child protection but months before he assaulted me, one day he abused my trust at my home in a way reminiscent of the way I was bullied in year 8. He did not come back to my house after that and I made no attempt to contact him.

Some months later at the local shop I met a woman who claimed to be an important figure in child protection. I asked her about the behaviour of the man who called himself uncle. She encouraged me to report what I had seen to police. I invited her to my house and the conversation turned to the young male. She said she had known him before he made my acquaintance. Then he actually turned up in person at my house as we were speaking. So there was definitely a connection between the young man and this important person in child protection.

Another acquaintance of mine at the time had had her blue card revoked, and was associated with the teenager. In hindsight was this the reason for the visit from the woman in child protection?

A more stunning conclusion presents to me, was the teenager (or the adult posing as a teenager) using himself or being used as bait?

Was he bait for the paedophilia inclined people I had unfortunately associated myself with?

In 2016 a self reporting hotline for paedophiles was trialled in Bundaberg, so I can believe it possible for this kind of sting operation.