Minutes ago, I learned that someone I've known my whole life in my extended family was busted for

I still can't say it. I just don't want those two words together existing in any post with my name on it.

I heard he got caught through a fake website. U.S. Marshals came to his door and evicted him from his house to protect his child. The question now is whether he ever actually did anything -- whether he's an actual predator or just looked at pictures. I wasn't exactly in the right state of mind to absorb everything I was told about the situation, but what I gather is, he admitted that it's been a life-long addiction, and the supposition is that it goes back to how he was treated by his father growing up.

My family is the caring, understanding type, and I'm glad for that all the time, but especially at times like this. It was my father, my mother, and I in that room when I was told this, and I was happy that we were all on his side in response to this news -- hoping for healing, that he takes well to therapy, etc. We went through something like this before, when we discovered my mother's alcoholism -- not that that's like even close to the same scale as this, of course.

Why couldn't it have just been alcoholism?