The Gagens heard of Chan’s crimes through an e-mail from the police. “The primary response [was] a little bit of disbelief, like: ‘Oh my God, how may this occur? Is that this true?’ It appears like some tv drama that you just by no means imagined you’d ever be concerned in,” Sam says. There was anger too, as a result of they’d already raised considerations about Chan — whom they thought of “bizarre” — to senior Vivid Horizons employees, which have been waved away as “simply Vince being Vince”. But “if anybody was going to do something to the children, it might have been him”. Sam and his spouse, Cleo*, now consider that Hugh “at very least witnessed violent or sexual abuse,” and “might properly have been the sufferer of a few of that [sexual abuse]”.
