I (18M) found out my dad (42M) was the predator in an abduction case 15 years ago

I am shaking as I write this on world mental health day because my world is falling apart and I have nowhere to turn to.<br><br>My dad has always been a good man. He was the all American boy next door, got by on charm and looks. Never a girlfriend until he was in college and that's when I was born. He's had a few girlfriends since my mum but nothing too serious, always a friend and never someone who wanted to settle down. He's never been abusive to my mum or physically me or brother. He has spanked me a few times when I was little and gave me the shame guilt complex about it. He was a great family man. Always present. He never went to our schools or anything but he attended everything. <br><br>He's 42 now and looks like he 25. He's still very good looking and chases women a lot of the times women he cannot have. He's a cheater, I've always been ashamed to admit it but I never said anything because my mum and brother would get involved and he would never do it with my friends just women he worked with. He's had a girlfriend for the last 6 months, she is 22 and I do not believe she knows about his younger son (*see brother).<br><br>So I was looking for old photos for my Gran's 60th (next week) and I was looking through my dad's flickr account (he's a photographer and has a public account). There were photos from a case he was in 15 years ago as a volunteer reporter for a paper. He was there for when the girl was found. I went into the sets and one of the sets was photos of the girl before she went missing. Then 2 sets from when she went missing and the search. The last set was when she was found. I looked through them and saw the last one. It was a red flag but I didn't think much into it because my dad was there when she was found.<br><br>I went on the web and searched for local abduction cases from 2008 and it led me to a wikipedia page and a Chambers post on a suburb's subchambers. The girl had been abducted for 7 days and they found her in another state. The post mentioned my dad's name. The story was that the girl had been with her dad (she was around 9 or 10 years old at the time and the dad was 27). They were in their car and he had to stop at a gas station in the suburb my dad was in. He left her in the car and she was abducted by a man. She had a gold necklace. Rang for food, and shot through a fastfood store with a store manager filming her on phone. She was found in a town in Australia (I live in New Zealand but am Australian). The police who found her were his friends, and the man who abducted her was caught a week later.<br><br>I am ramming into a mental wall. Why did he have so many photos of it? I don't think he was the one who abducted her. I looked into the officer's who found her, but nothing on my dad. Why would he have all these photos? What else has he lied about? I don't even want to ask him.