Why am I telling this now?

I'm sure a lot of people have wondered why I started this blog and why I have decided to share this secret now in such a public way. A lot of it has to do with the fact that my 19 month-old grandson drowned in our swimming pool this past September. I have been estranged from my biological family since they indirectly sabotaged my attempts to prosecute my father for continuously sexually abusing me as a child. My father has kept me silent all these years through threats of death and by actually chasing me, on foot in front of a large group of skydivers, with a loaded pistol. He was stopped by my husband. Anyway, I have tried several times to have my father prosecuted for the sexual abuse and find that law enforcement and lawyers in Wise County are afraid of the Bishop family.What some people don't know is that the Bishop family is also afraid of Tom Bishop. Our lives have been spent with a man who uses his gun to get us to do what he wants. Yes, Tom has a kind and generous side to him. But that cannot outweigh the side of him that has hurt his children and scared his wife into protecting him and defending him every time he has done something wrong. Not only has Tom Bishop committed terrible sexual acts against his own daughter, but he has also attempted to rape another member of the family. That member is terrified that he will try to kill her. When will it stop?In September, my sweet grandson drowned and my husband and our family were devastated. I wanted and needed my mom, brothers, and their families, but I was afraid my father would show up. I could not risk it and would not put my own children at risk, so I told my siblings and mother not to come.I am sick of playing games. My father, Tom Bishop, is a child molester and a rapist. He should not be a police officer and should be in prison. He has chased me with a gun and put a gun in my husband's face. He put a gun to my older brother's head when he was 7 years old to keep my mother from taking us and leaving my father. He has also put a gun to my baby brother's head when he was 10 years old to keep my mother from leaving him.I know that many of you will not have any sympathy for my mother and I understand. But she has been with him since she was 17. She does not know anything else. He took her away from her parents in Alabama and has always threatened to hunt her down and kill her and her children if she left.I am afraid that he will kill her when he finds out that I have posted this. I wish someone would do something. I have told the Texas Ranger, but he cannot do anything until the District Attorney requests his assistance (because Tom is an elected official). My mom is ashamed of what my father has done, but she is a good person. She has helped many people in the years that she has been an attorney in Wise County. I hope and pray that my actions bring her no harm.I just don't want him to be able to hurt anyone else. I don't think he will stop.I will take a lie detector test for anyone, given by any certified person, and I will testify in court, under oath, if he doesn't kill me first. Sincerely,Laura Bishop Moore