Woman Is Arrested for Kidnapping after She Saved a Little Girl from Her Father — Story of the Day
I married a widower with a young daughter I vowed to raise as my own, but I never imagined that promise would land me in jail.
When I married Geoffrey, I made a vow along with ‘in sickness and in health’ that I would love and care for his little orphaned daughter May as if she were my very own.
May was five at the time, and the most adorable doll I’d ever seen, with chocolate curls and big green eyes. Geoffrey had told me about her right from the start. Geoffrey seemed to be the kindest, gentlest, most considerate man I’d ever met, but I later learned it was all an act.
I grew to love my little stepdaughter with all my heart | Source: Shutterstock.cpm
At first, it was like a dream. I’d been orphaned at the age of sixteen, so to suddenly find myself part of a loving family was a dream come true, but the honeymoon was short-lived.
Immediately I realized that Geoffrey was very hard on little May, constantly criticizing her. I tried to intervene, but he snapped that HE was the father and it wasn’t my place to comment on how he raised his child.
Then, three months after our wedding, Geoffrey began to behave in an odd way. He’d phone in the middle of the day to ask where I was, who I was with, what I was doing. At first, I was flattered.
He loved me so much that he was jealous, I thought, and a sillier idea I’d never had. Then one day I found him going through my purse! “What are you doing?” I asked.
“I know you’re lying to me,” he cried, “Show me your phone, I want to know who the man is…”
I was aghast. “What man? What are you talking about?”
When Clair married Geoffrey it seemed a dream come true | Source: Unsplash
“The man…” Geoffrey was pale and his jaws were clenched with tension. “SHE was meeting a man…I know it!”
I gasped. “Your wife? Daphne? I never knew…I’m so sorry Geoffrey!” I went to him and hugged him. Now his insecurity and paranoia made sense!
“I have nothing to hide, love,” I told him. “You can look at my phone.”
Geoffrey just started crying and apologized, and I thought we had worked through the problem. Things were better for a while, then he started to criticize...