4 | The Mask Slips

This is Nicholas Rossi complaining to the police years later when they tried to make his neighbours aware of the fact he was a convicted sex offender.

You seem to have a huge interest in instilling this fear that I'm this awful, horrible person.

I found on the internet his participation in a website called A Voice for Men.

That website was evidently created by some grumpy men who felt that the court system was biased in favor of women in divorce cases and in cases where allegations of a sexual nature were made against men.

There are certain men who perceive that women will just always be believed, rightly or wrongly, and that this is just unfair.

Pictures of Mary and her baby daughter suddenly appear on the Voice for Men website.

She doesn't know if Nick was responsible for putting them there, but she remembers the impact.

It was heartbreaking for me because, you know, like, my daughter, like...

She's innocent in this.

Like, she didn't have anything to do with it.

You know, my parents, they had nothing to do with it.

My parents have only been supportive.

It was even harder to see Nick paint himself as the victim, though.

That was the really heartbreaking part, was he does all this horrible stuff to me, and then he goes to people acting like he's the victim.

I would later write to Rossi to put this accusation to him.

Guess what? He wasn't dead.

But I didn't get a reply.

I don't know if he denies his actions or he likes the pity or attention.

It's like really dark to assault somebody and then try to turn the tables on them.

There were times where I did think Nick would come up with something and then try to put me in jail.

While Mary is telling me about this harassment from Nicholas, it's beginning to sound very familiar.