hani_backup | This is a really...uncomfortable article

I was reading Dear Prudence article from Slate.com.

This question caught my attention.

Warning: could be triggering about child abuse

Dear Prudence,
After raising my children alone, I found Mr. Right and got remarried. A few months after we were married, I found pictures of his stepdaughter from a previous marriage on his computer. He had always spoken of her as his daughter and said she thought of him as her father. These were nude pictures. When I questioned him, he said he did not take nude pictures but only modified them—just to see what she looked like naked. He explained that he did take pictures of her in lingerie on her wedding day and Photoshopped them to reflect her naked. This has been eating at me ever since. The bond between a parent and child is sacred, and I cannot understand the sexual pictures. I am afraid to have him around my daughters or granddaughter. Am I being paranoid?

—Bewildered Wife and Mom

Dear Bewildered,
When a letter starts with a wife sitting at her husband's computer, it's an inevitable cue for the staccato string music of Psycho. (I suppose the good news is that this image of the daughter-in-law won't be the family Christmas card.) Your husband's stated explanation for the photos may be true. If so, that means he was photographing his stepdaughter in her lingerie on her wedding day! If that's the case, the photos you saw don't just reflect his own private perversion, but show that his relationship with his stepdaughter has crossed so many lines that the two of them are tangled in a spool of yellow crime-scene tape. It's also possible he's lying about Photoshopping and that he has a cache of actual naked photos of her. Whatever really happened between them, you have just gotten an ugly look into the psyche of the man you married. I don't think you're being paranoid to worry about the safety of your daughters and granddaughter around him. But once you feel that way, it doesn't seem possible, or desirable, to continue in this marriage. Yes, it's a heavy blow to think you have finally found love, and find these photos instead. But at least you haven't invested years in this relationship—and I hope you've kept your financial investments separate. Someone who is afraid of her husband and is being eaten away by her knowledge about him is someone who needs to see a matrimonial attorney, ASAP.

—Prudie

I'm so horrified... I definitely agree she should divorce "Mr. Right."