Complaint Review: Clifford Priest - Mara Linda Priest

Clifford Priest molested his nieces and nephews for many, many years. His wife, Mara, helped him by hiding the abuse and lying to keep him from being stopped. They have taken an old mans life savings, and his home, so that they could build a new home in Beaumont California. Neither one of them work for anything they have, instead they rely on various family members for support. They have other people pay their bills, pay for their cars and houses, etc. They think that the world belongs to them, and that everyone owes them something.

Photo is of me now and at the age of 2 months. This is when Clifford started raping me.
My complaint is against my aunt and uncle for raping me and covering it up.

I was only two months old when Clifford started raping me. I told family members what he was doing to me, but no one wanted to believe me, therefore, the sexual abuse continued until I was twelve years old. I was always expected to respect my uncle at all times, and was told over and over that I was to do as I was told. As a young child, I was acting like an adult. An adult prostitute that is! I didn't know any better, but he did.

His mother, my grandmother, told me that Clifford would never want me because I was ugly. She went on to say that he had a beautiful wife, and that he wouldn't ever want to touch me. Well, someone should have told him that. Him and his wife were sitting right there when my grandmother said this to me. I might add, Mara Priest knew that it was happening the whole time, but she sat there and smirked at me just the same as Clifford did. My grandmother pulled me out of bed, by my self, to verbally attack me in front of my rapist and his acomplice wife. She would never do that in front of my father, because my grandmother knew that it was all true, and my daddy would have stopped Clifford cold. My grandmother had to protect her baby boy, at the same time, sacraficing the health and lives of her daughters children.

I am still his victim, even at 35 years old. I can't have a normal relationship with a man. I hate myself and the way I look. I have spent my life trying to hurt people before they could hurt me. Clifford has made a sexual abuse victim out of everyone I have ever known. I have never molested or hurt a child in anyway, but because of the things Clifford did to me, I have been a very hateful person toward the people who honestly did love me. I can't stand to hear the word love directed at me. And I become very violent when I think someone is trying to hurt one of my children.

He molested my son when he was only 3 years old. I never left him alone with my child, but it was Christmas, and I was doing something. The next thing I know is my son came into the room, pale white, with a huge raised red handprint on his little face. I could not get him to tell me what happened because he was scared to death, and he would not talk at all. My Uncle Clifford just sat there and didn't say a word, but I knew what he did.

My Grandmother was the only one to say anything. She said "he spit on his uncle, so he got slapped in the face!" My son had never spit on anyone in his life. He was being molested by that b*****d, and at 3, my son knew that it was wrong. How dare that son of a b***h touch my child!!! Who ever said that it was ok to hit a child in the face, or anywhere else, especially when that child was only trying to protect himself from being raped!! Clifford shut him up the same way that he always did with the rest of his victims.

In 1988, just a few days after he molested my son, I called the police to report him. The police picked him up and questioned him, but because there had been so many years between the last time he raped me, and the time I was making the report, and because my son was only three and would not be able to make a reliable witness, they were unable to charge him. I would like to say, I was told by an investigator that Clifford failed a polygraph exam, and that after failing, he did admit to raping me, but said that it was my fault, and that I initiated the sexual contact.

I am enclosing a picture of myself at the time the sexual abuse started. Please keep in mind that was only two months old, and since his birthday is May 29th, 1957, that would have made him almost 13 years old when he started killing me. Killing me is exactly what he did. He killed the child that I never got to be. He killed all my hopes and dreams of ever being anything in this life. He killed the dream I had of being able to keep this sickness from attacking my children. He raped me until he was 26 or 27 years old. As far as I am concerned, my grandmother and his wife Mara, helped him. They could have stopped him, but they didn't. He is even being covered for now, all these years later. It is amazing to me that a family I came from, could ruin the lives of many innocent children,just to save one sick b*****d from jail time that he has earned!

I have to live the rest of my life a victim, and so do the people that are close to me, but Clifford, a no good, worthless child predator, gets to live his life with a clear mind. He is protected, and babied, and still free to rape and ruin those that deserve normal lives.

Please help me. Show this site to everyone you know. If you know Clifford or Mara Priest, keep your children away from them. They will ruin your children the same way that they have ruined so many others. No one knows for sure what kind of job Clifford does because he is a job skipper. He would prefer to sit at home and surf the net while others support his family.

Mara is a hair dresser. She may be working in Beaumont California or the surrounding areas in a hair salon or beauty shop. He is short and heavy set, with a bald head. He has a pot belly and wears glasses some of the time. Mara is dark complected with black hair. She is also heavy set, with very large hips, legs and arms, and has dark eyes.

If you have any reason to believe that you know these people, or that your children may be over at there house visiting one of the Priest children, please, please, for the safety of your children, get away from them and never let your children go back over there.

Abby
O Fallon, Missouri
U.S.A.