Strangler by Corey Mitchell

Author:Corey Mitchell [Mitchell, Corey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 43

One of the major requirements of Tony Shore’s probation was to attend a sexual offender therapy program. Shore started off with a licensed sex offender treatment provider by the name of Dr. Barbara Levinson. This particular union only lasted two months, until he was reassigned to a new program through an organization called Crimson & Associates. Shore would deal mainly with Dr. Sharon Burns.

One of his big assignments in the treatment program was to keep a journal of his thoughts in regard to his offense and to other pertinent issues in his life. His notebook contained several insightful passages.

Tony Shore wrote about God.

In an essay entitled “Forgiveness Self,” he declared that he harbored “a lot of mixed emotions [regarding] . . . forgiveness” and wanted to know “how can I ever truly forgive myself for what I did?” Shore believed God sent him guardian angels and that he was protected. “I’ve confessed my sins and know I’m forgiven and will never go back.”

Shore always seemed to write exactly what he believed his counselors wanted to read. “I’m only a man. I have, however, forgiven myself on some level,” he detailed. Nowhere did he mention regret for having done what he did to his daughters.

Shore believed he was a prime candidate for rehabilitation “but until I am able to reconcile with my daughters . . . it will be impossible for me to find complete forgiveness for myself.”

Eventually Shore’s essay displayed a sense of remorse. “I have faith and believe God will see us through and bring us together someday,” he wrote in reference to Amber and Tiffany. “Someday I will have the opportunity to apologize and let them know this was totally my fault and nothing they did could have caused any of this.”

In his essay entitled “Drugs & Alcohol,” he wrote that he did not abuse alcohol or drugs. “I just never developed a taste for alcohol and don’t care for the woozy feeling it provides. I don’t like drugs and usually feign away from even prescribed drugs. I generally won’t even take Tylenol or aspirin.”

His one weakness was cocaine, which he claimed he used periodically in high school and college because it enhanced creative and artistic thought.

“In retrospect, it definitely clouded my judgment and, ironic, I feel it was a contributing factor when I offended Tiffany.” Shore could not quite place all of the blame on himself. “I left California when I was nineteen and had only used three or four times since then about every three to five years whenever a certain friend would come to visit when passing through Texas. He just happened to be visiting that week.”

Shore contended that if it weren’t for the cocaine, he would not have laid a finger on Tiffany. “I never would have imagined it possible for me to have done this horrible offense in the first place and know in my heart if my judgment wasn’t clouded at the time I believe I would have acted differently.”

Apparently, sex offender therapy class taught Shore one thing.

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