The Day My Father Went to Jail

How my father’s sex crimes destroyed the meaning of family

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash

It was a warm spring day when my father sat the family down and told us he had been arrested that afternoon. The family computer and iPad were seized. Despite being sixteen, the story was rehashed in vague terms: “They found inappropriate photos” and “People might be calling your father a ‘pervert’ at school,” the…