© Santa Clara County Sheriff's OfficeRalph Flynn (L), Carolyn Flynn.
A 23-year-old Russian citizen adopted by an American couple from California has filed a lawsuit against the parents, accusing them of longstanding sexual abuse. The adoptive mother and father face dozens of counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and incest.
Denis Flynn, 23, was adopted by Ralph and Carolyn Flynn when he was nine years old.
At first, the journey to America for the Russian boy who had spent three years in an orphanage appeared to be a dream.
"I had my own bed, my own TV, fantastic food. Things,"
the San Jose Mercury News cited Denis as saying. "I was given a few months to enjoy this new life."
Denis came back down to Earth with a bang when his new father Ralph Flynn, now 71, reportedly started to sexually abuse him on a regular basis.
"I knew in the beginning it was wrong, but fear took over," said the young man, who firmly decided he was "not going back to the orphanage."
Making his first public media comments on the issue at the Alexander Law Group in San Jose, California, at the beginning of March,
Denis claimed that sexual encounters soon became more frequent, "from three times a month to almost every day, to every morning, every afternoon, every evening." When the boy turned 15, Carolyn Flynn, now 44, allegedly became involved in the sexual abuse of her adopted son, too. "That was my first time. That was a mind trip as well. I lost my virginity to my mom," Denis Flynn told detectives in an interview with Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office.
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