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UPDATE: I want to start off by thanking everybody who took the time to respond to my post. The summary of this update is that you guys gave me some incredibly solid advice, I acted on it, and my life is better as a result. Here's what happened:
After seeing the overwhelming consensus in favor of confronting my stepfather we jointly decided to do so. My mother came home from work shortly after I submitted the original post, and my stepfather left the house soon after that to run out and do a quick errand. It was at that time that my girlfriend and I pulled my mother aside and explained the situation to her. As many of you predicted, her initial response was angry denial, and without any demonstrable evidence to prove that he'd done as accused I felt like kind of an idiot.
That feeling lasted about five minutes, when my stepfather returned home and my mother (against my wishes -- we wanted to handle it ourselves) confronted him about it immediately. He and my mother were speaking in private at this point, but to her shock and ours, he admitted to everything right away, albeit with a great degree of shame and embarrassment. To be perfectly honest I didn't stick around to witness the aftermath firsthand -- my girlfriend understandably felt very uncomfortable being in his home after all that had happened, and we quickly made the decision to pack up our things and make the two hour drive home.
My knowledge is entirely secondhand after this point, but through a combination of phone calls and text messages my mother has described the situation like this: he gave my mom a bullshit justification for why he chose to steal the photos. I would expand on his excuse, but it would require a tremendous amount of back story that I doubt anyone cares about. Suffice it to say, I left out a lot of details in my original post -- none of them paint my stepfather in a more flattering light, but he's doing his best to convince her that he's not a sex predator. At her request (read: insistence) he deleted the photos. I have no way of confirming that he actually did, but my mother is confident that he was true to his word, and that is good enough for us.
My mother is currently exercising every option she can to convince herself that her husband isn't a terrible human being, though she is furious, aware that he fucked up, and is completely sympathetic to our feelings of disgust, betrayal and violation. That said, she doesn't want a divorce and I don't blame her. She's okay with her husband being a liar, an idiot and a nosy piece of shit -- just not a sex criminal.
That said, I am done with my stepfather to say the very least. It sucks because prior to this we had what I thought was a very healthy, respectful relationship, and I feel like my family has been permanently and irreparably fractured by this. I will never call him my dad again, and any contact that I have with him will be kept to an absolute minimum and based on necessity.
My girlfriend is everything you would expect a young lady who has had her privacy violated in such a huge way to be -- angry, hurt, and humiliated. But she is also a strong woman and she's handling this with more grace and more dignity than I would have expected. She is okay.
On a final note, a lot of people have been wondering why I left my laptop open without any sort of encryption or password protection. The answer is simple: I didn't realize that my stepfather is a fucking creep. Hindsight is 20/20, but understand that at the time privacy seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to expect of my stepfather. I've known and loved for a decade and a half. This fiasco really came out of left field.
I think that's everything. Hope everyone's having a better New Year than I did!
Edit: On a second final note, a lot of people also wondered why I allowed him to leave the house after we first got home. You are all correct, it was dumb and careless of us not to confront him then and there. At that point I was still in shock and trying to any possible explanation for what I had witnessed other than 'my stepfather is a fucking scumbag'. Also, when he returned he had a few takeout bags from a local restaurant, so it seems like he just went out to get some food. There's no way to completely rule out the possibility that he made backups of the files, but it's also not as if he mysteriously vanished without any explanation.
**Edit 2:**On a third final note (because I'm addressing comments as I read them) I brought up the possibility of filing charges against my stepfather to my girlfriend, she adamantly said no. I don't agree with her reservations, but I respect them, and that's that.
My girlfriend of five years and I are both in college and have been staying at my parent's house for the first half of our winter break, so we've been here for around two weeks. Xilisoft iso maker 1.0.21 keygen. Things are usually pleasant, but it may be worth mentioning that my stepfather has always been palpably cold towards my girlfriend.
A few hours ago the two of us went out to get some lunch. While we were waiting on our food, I logged into TeamViewer (if you're unfamiliar, it's a remote access program that allows you to access your computer from a mobile device) to check something on my laptop and found that somebody was actively using my computer and had opened a photo of my girlfriend in a very compromising position, along with an entire folder of similar pictures. I panicked and attempted to shut my laptop down through the app, but the person on the other end fought me and won. The last thing I saw before the other person cut my connection was a handful of the photos being dragged and dropped into an external drive. I immediately told my girlfriend what had happened, she (understandably) freaked out and we got home as fast as we could. When we got home my stepfather acted perfectly normal for the brief time that we saw him, but left the house very shortly after.
My stepfather was the only person home (and with access to my laptop) at the time that this took place, and short of a hacker with the ability to telepathically insert a flash drive into my computer, there is simply nobody else it could have been. Furthermore, I keep all of my private photos in a VERY well hidden folder, so the fact that he was able to find it within five minutes of me leaving the house (not to mention the flash drive) tells me that he probably has done this before.
And now..I'm not sure what to do. Do my girlfriend and I confront him? Should I get my mother involved and potentially damage their relationship? Other than feeling deeply disturbed and violated, how should we be looking at this situation? Neither of us have dealt with anything like this before.
tl;dr: My stepfather has been going through my computer when I'm not around in order to view highly personal photos of my girlfriend. This has most likely been going on for awhile now, and includes at least one instance of him copying these photos to an external hard drive. I have no idea how we should be moving forward.
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