10-07-2014, 09:55 PM
I'm having trouble understanding why Stephen Collins would admit to child molestation in front of a third party (the couple's therapist), even if he didn't know he was being recorded? He sounds very detached about what he did to 10, 11 and 12 year old girls while his wife is grilling him at the therapist's office.
He didn't seem to be confirming the molestations outta guilt or remorse and he wasn't seeking help for pedophilia at the time -- it was a marriage counseling session. Did he want to save his marriage so badly that he'd provide that kind of "disclosure" (that's what he calls it) in front of someone else? Would he really expect that being honest about something like that would save his marriage? Did he just not think it was a big deal, or did he want to get caught?
Very odd, but I don't doubt that it's Collins on the recording and there are likely more incidents than he's so casually and vaguely copping to on the tape.
Anyway........even though California requires two-party consent to record a private conversation, his wife's secret recording is apparently legal. I looked up the laws: there is an exception that allows a party in California to record another party without his/her consent if the recording is made to obtain evidence of a violent felony (child molestation is considered such). That's what Faye Grant says she did (on lawyer's advice) and she immediately turned the tape over to police in 2012. She is adamant that she did not leak the tape.
I wonder if Stephen Collins will be around much longer. He's so fucked (as he so should be, IMO).
He didn't seem to be confirming the molestations outta guilt or remorse and he wasn't seeking help for pedophilia at the time -- it was a marriage counseling session. Did he want to save his marriage so badly that he'd provide that kind of "disclosure" (that's what he calls it) in front of someone else? Would he really expect that being honest about something like that would save his marriage? Did he just not think it was a big deal, or did he want to get caught?
Very odd, but I don't doubt that it's Collins on the recording and there are likely more incidents than he's so casually and vaguely copping to on the tape.
Anyway........even though California requires two-party consent to record a private conversation, his wife's secret recording is apparently legal. I looked up the laws: there is an exception that allows a party in California to record another party without his/her consent if the recording is made to obtain evidence of a violent felony (child molestation is considered such). That's what Faye Grant says she did (on lawyer's advice) and she immediately turned the tape over to police in 2012. She is adamant that she did not leak the tape.
I wonder if Stephen Collins will be around much longer. He's so fucked (as he so should be, IMO).