Mo'Nique’s Brother Must Be Prosecuted?

[Carlos Baez]

Rating: En Fuego™

Gerald Imes, the brother of Oscar-winning actress Mo'Nique, has apologized for sexually abusing her during their childhood.

"I abused and betrayed the trust of another sibling, my sister, my blood sister," Imes said on Monday's Oprah Winfrey Show. "I'm sorry, Mo'Nique. I'm sorry."

For the first time, Imes admitted that he molested Mo'Nique for about a year or two when he was 13 and she was about 7.

"The hardest part to me was for even to admit to her that I did something wrong. I downplayed it by saying, 'If you think I did something wrong, then I'm sorry.'...I did it, I'm not proud of it," he
said.

Imes said the sexual abuse was triggered by him also being a victim of molestation. He said that led to him abusing drugs and alcohol by age 11. Imes said he was hopeful the pair could "come back together as brother
and sister."

"I'm not a monster," he said. "I'm her older brother."

In a previous interview with Oprah, Mo’Nique said she drew inspiration for her Oscar-winning performance as Mary Jones, a mother who sexually abuses and beats her daughter in the movie “Precious” from her own
childhood molestation.

“I knew very well who that monster was. I knew Mary Jones,” she said. “When he would say ‘action,’ that’s the monster that I became.”

Mo’Nique embraced the role because she felt the movie could help end the cycle of abuse. “It’s so important because it’s so honest,” she told Oprah. “[This abuse is] happening every day. And we keep wanting to sweep
it under the carpet and act like it doesn’t exist.”

Must Gerald Imes be prosecuted after he admitted to sexually abuse Mo’Nique?

In my own personal opinion …Yes a thousand times Yes, Yes, Yes,…

Source: www.CyberHollywood.ning.com

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