Mute Witness by Reed Rick R

Author:Reed Rick R. [Reed Rick R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Twenty-One

Milton Hughes rubbed his forehead, setting aside the three-page document he had been reading. His secretary, Ellen, had done her usual job, an homage to perfection...no spelling errors, no extraneous punctuation, the margins wide. He swiveled in his chair to stare out at the bright summer day, stratocumulus clouds low on the horizon and thought about what he was doing. The request for a restraining order was not an easy motion to file. Of course, the man in question's perversion was despicable, something Milton couldn't bear to think of in any real sense, something he could consider only in the remotest of abstractions. Besides, Milton had always thought of himself as a God-fearing man, one who had been inclined all of his life to rigidly follow the rules. And the rules of the Bible were the supreme directives of how to live a good life. Injunctions against homosexuality were clear. One had only to read the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah to know what the Lord thought of such sick behavior.

Milton picked up his Mont Blanc fountain pen and signed the bottom of the document with a flourish, but with little glee. He knew the Bible and he could point with confidence to several Old Testament references that made it clear that God had not meant for “man to lay with another man.” But, Milton thought, as he shoved the document away from him, I know the New Testament too, backwards and forwards, and Christ preached only love, acceptance and forgiveness. Nowhere, that Milton could think of, had Christ said anything against homosexuality.

Family law. For the most part, Milton had stopped practicing it years ago, sick of being involved in the heartache that divorce and custody battles caused. He had seen too much tragedy, had purported much of it himself being the advocate of this or that husband or wife, to want to continue working in such a field.

But Estelle had been an acquaintance, a woman he saw in church every Sunday morning, had grasped her hand and smiled when offering the sign of peace, had stood behind her in line for communion. He couldn't send her to someone else, couldn't turn his back on her.

And yet the words of the motion rankled him, the request, basically, that Sean not be allowed any visitation until the mother was present to supervise or until the person who had raped the boy was found, clearing his father. The document cited how Sean Dawes was setting a bad example for his son, how his living openly with another man in his son's presence was thwarting the boy's psychological development, how even the boy's own stepfather was in concurrence with his grandmother. He had backed up his work with documentation from the divorce trial of Jason's parents, using language culled from the court-ordered psychological evaluation of Sean Dawes, excising only the most unflattering verbiage to bolster his case. Milton glanced down at some of report, which he had included in his

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