Families heap loathing on child abuser Carroll

Families heap loathing on child abuser Carroll

The mother, her eyes red from crying, walked to the front of the courtroom, held up a slip of paper and looked at the man who had just been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for molesting her daughters.

She began to read.

"When I first met you, you told me they were safe with you," she said at the sentencing hearing Thursday. "You groomed us, and you gained our trust. But you made a major mistake. You took our kindness for a weakness. ... I had no idea the monster you really are."