Dear Queenie,
There is one man who works at a well-known business on the island who works with girls from other countries and constantly tries to have a relationship with them. Usually he succeeds.
Acting like a serious boyfriend, when the girl falls in love with him and of course she wants to stay with him on the island (because of him, not the island), he always refuses her by saying he can’t afford her to stay by him, he doesn’t have enough money (he’s got upper standard salary though) and that she can’t stay on the island even if they marry.
It also happened several times that a girl got pregnant with him and he told her to take it out as he can’t support her. He’s been doing these things for many years already.
On the other hand, he is trying to be a good son in front of his beloved mother and his family who think he is a great man (he’s not married, lives alone, only one child).
When I was on the island I wanted to visit his mother to let her know about him and now when off the island I wanted to write a letter to her but I think she wouldn’t get to read it as he can stop the letter as he lives next to her and she doesn’t see so well anymore.
Queenie, what is there to be done in this case to stop him?—Too much
Dear Too much,
I doubt that sending a letter to his mother, or even talking to her in person, would do much good. She probably would not believe you, or even if she did might try to defend her son.
Warning the women on whom he preys might help, if you can get them to believe you, but “there are none so blind as those who will not see” and those who are wearing “rose-coloured glasses.”
However, if he is somehow forcing these women to have a relationship with him they may have recourse to the Labour Department, the Women’s Desk (tel. 542-7940), theLegal Aid/Law Clinic (tel. 542-2337) or even Safe Haven (office 9277 or 24-hour hotline 9333).
