Oprah Winfrey Show-" The day I found out my husband was a child molester." |
| 7/13/2007 2:26:00 PM |
On the Oprah Winfrey show, Oprah said "I have one intention behind this show," "and that is that somebody of the millions of you who watch will see something that snaps you into reality. ... Child molesters are in your neighborhoods, your schools, your churches, and, as you'll see today, maybe even sleeping in your bed." This all recently aired on the Oprah Winfrey show. Leanna told Oprah the secret that has been tormenting her. Leanna explained on the Oprah Winfrey show that she graduated from high school, she was a single mother looking for love and security. She fell in love with a man named James Perry. They married and had a baby girl together. Life seemed good. "He was an awesome dad," Leanna says. But as years passed, the marriage became rocky. James was often out of the house and Leanna suspected that he was having an affair. When he was at home, he was locked in a room with his computer, she said on the Oprah Winfrey show. "Now that I look back, he always made time for the kids," Leanna says. "It was a good thing until you find out why", Leanna said on the Oprah Winfrey show. You can read more about this story in an upcoming edition of the Oprah magazine and about this subject in books on the Oprah book club listings. Leanna said on the Oprah Winfrey show that one night, after eight years of marriage, Leanna awoke to the shock of her life. Seventeen FBI officers arrived to search the house and arrest her husband. James had videotaped himself having sex with an 8-year-old girl and sold it on the Internet. Here's what police told her about the man she loved: James Perry was a notorious sexual predator who for years eluded the Wisconsin police. When the FBI finally found their man, he was an ordinary father of two who was leading an incomprehensible double life. He confessed to 40 sexual assaults on children, and he was given a sentence of 375 years in prison-the longest in Wisconsin's history. Leanna told Oprah the secret and felt much better getting it off her chest. You can read more on line, look for future airings of this Oprah Winfrey show or in the Oprah magazine. |
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