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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Steven Sitler, is a diagnosed fixated pedophile with multiple victims – including members of his own family - prior to his marriage. Despite more than a decade of “treatment” from a local psychologist and counselors specializing in counseling sexual offender he admitted, thanks to a failed polygraph, sexually arousal from contact with his infant son. His wife was aware of this issue and chose not to report it to authorities. Steven Sitler is legally prevented from participating in routine fatherly duties or living in the family home. The fact is that we will never know if observes the behavioral guidelines imposed on him by the court which, at best, provide limited protection to his infant son. His familial chaperones, including his parents and his wife have proven to be unreliable in the past. And frankly, what benefit accrues to them for reporting his lapses? They have amply demonstrated by past silence that protecting the predator is of greater importance to them than protecting the prey. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Katie (nee Travis) Sitler longed for a husband to such a degree that with full knowledge of his previous offenses, she married a man with a life sentence hanging over his head as punishment for his sexual abuse of young children. Her parents, Betsy and Donald Travis, following the courtship model popular in some evangelical churches including Christ Church and Trinity Reformed in Moscow, gave their permission for the courtship and marriage of their daughter. What loving, responsible parents give permission for their daughter to marry a convicted pedophile knowing that they intended to have children? Katie Travis and Steven Sitler became engaged after two meetings (and many email exchanges). What value did Mr. and Mrs. Travis place on Katie future happiness and the possibility of a stable home life? How did they imagine marriage to a fixated pedophile would turn out? What prompts parents to allow their daughter to follow this dangerous path? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Speculating on the reasons for the ill-considered parental decisions made by her parents is pointless. There is blame and shame to go around many times over. However, we can, arguably, assume that regardless of the stupidity of all complicit parties no one wanted this marriage and faux parenthood to hit such a dismal, yet absolutely predictable, impasse. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Regardless of the thinking errors Katie Sitler made in agreeing to marry Steven Sitler - compounded by the decision to deliver a child into a home that will never be safe for him, sympathy for her unhappy situation should be minimal. She is/was a willing, indeed eager, participant in constructing and living in the nasty mess she now finds herself in. The only innocent party in this dangerous situation is a year and a half old little boy who must be protected from a predatory father who will always represent a high risk to him. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>