u/miserabeau

He was a registered behavioral therapist who worked with autistic children. He was charged with 5 felonies, despite admitting to more than 100 instances of child sexual abuse.

- child molesting 1

- child molesting 2

- child exploitation 4

- possession of child sexual abuse material 5 (2 counts) (over 140 files found on his devices)

He discussed with a nanny how they could sexually abuse the baby once it was born, and he "instructed" the nanny on how to abuse and film the infant.

I was directed here by r/NativeAmerican so I hope this is appropriate

Apologies in advance if blood quantums (BQ) are taboo; my family was raised with it and our family members still use the terminology.

My grandfather was 100% Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) and we know his parents and siblings and tribal information via Canada where he was raised. We have old photos and his original tribal surname.

He married my grandmother, a white woman of mixed Irish and English ancestry, and had 4 children. In BQ terms, each of his children would be assumed to be 50% Mohawk.

My mother bought a whole pack of Ancestry DNA kits years ago and gifted them to her kids and niece, and I only returned mine recently because a family member asked why I never returned mine. So I dug it up from a storage bin, spit a lot, and mailed it in.

My mom's DNA came back as 16% Indigenous Canadian (as opposed to 50% in BQ) which surprised us all

Mine came back as 11% (instead of 25, as assumed by BQ).

It's strange to me how DNA is such a lottery. I feel even more distant from my indigenous family now, despite being only 2 generations removed from the reservation. We have plenty of cousins in Canada who were fortunate enough to learn the language in school and keep their history alive, and they have a local radio station that broadcasts in Mohawk, which I think is fantastic. They do wonderful things like beadwork and keep those traditions alive.

I feel almost... a sense of loss, for lack of a better term? My grandfather was a lifelong smoker and had laryngeal cancer in the late '70s. They had to remove his voicebox before I was even born, so I've never heard his voice. He refused to learn to talk because he "didn't want to sound like a robot" (his words, not mine!) He was so bitter and angry after the surgery that he spent all his time alone in his room doing crossword puzzles and as a kid in the '80s we were told to "leave grandpa alone". Despite being able to communicate in writing, he had no interest in getting to know us kids, so I never got his stories. His history. I heard a little from my mother and aunt about the horrible society that beat it into him that being "Indian" was a terrible thing, and when he left the reservation he came to the USA and registered on everything as "white" despite having deep caramel skin and distinct features. He died when I was 6.

Maybe it's dumb but all I have of him are pictures, and without the stories, and with so little of his blood, I feel more removed from him now.

Has anyone else received surprising and/or disappointing results from a DNA test?

This is from December 2025. I can't find any kind of follow up if the charges went to sentencing, and I can't find him as a registered sex offender. Either the courts are backed up or he got a walk.

All I found was this, the Lake County Grand Jury Indictments List https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILLAKE/bulletins/405813e

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