Moral Dilemma ...

A week ago was a season ending event for a flag football I captained, and played for, 53 years old and I am still running around on a field in South Philadelphia with a (mostly) much younger group of kids and I am still coaching them too, or as I explained to a ref who got on me for yelling too much at my team: “I can change my gender but not the fact that I coached high school football.”

After the event, which was upstairs at a bar, we went to ... the downstairs part of the bar, and sitting at a table in a corner there was a middle aged man, who had a suitcase and other bags and looked forlorn.  I, doing my best to help my fellow human, ignored him completely of course, and went on to drinking with my team.  Finally though, we got up to leave and he was still sitting there, still looking so sad that I reached out to him, talked to him, gave him my card.

And yesterday, I got this email from him, and I’ve reproduced it verbatim with the exception of some information I’ve redacted from it for reasons that will become clear.

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On Sunday, December 1, 2013 3:53 PM, <XXXXX> wrote:

Julie,

It was such a pleasure to meet you at <YYY> last Sun nite (11/24)

I believe it was a literal "Divine Appointment"

I desperately need help with getting settled asap/meaning a place to live

I could use your services as a liason/advocate with my brother who is trustee of my inheritance monies$$$ & having difficulty working out my needed draws of funds

I am homeless now

If you have a friend who needs a roommate here in center city/university city & could hook me up to  move in asap I could get monies within about 72 hrs

I am honest a management accountant of 16 yrs/hon dischare air force vet 1975-1979

air force academy 3 yrs/bs business univ denver 1981/& ba biblical studies 1986

father of 2, grandfather of 2/married 16 yrs/divorced since 1996

re:lgbt: I am "b" (Bi)

sorry if i get sloppy

limited computer time    

can also use you to help me incorporate my nonprofit orgn "<AAAA>":

Julie,

hope to hear from you asap by email

else ill call you mon or tues

when i get cell phone access

can meet you at <YYY> with notice

thanks for your love & warmth

<XXXXX>

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Something about the email seemed a little … odd (“I am a Nicaraguan prince waiting for my kingdom please wire me $500,000 immediately so I can give you millions you seem like a nice lady”) so I Google the fellow and on the first page of Google, someone with a name like his – I am not of course saying it was him – had been convicted of child molestation in Orlando FL as well as, more recently, criminal activity in Philadelphia.

Recently I posted here the experience of a Mormon bishop who disguised himself as homeless, visited his church, and was pretty much cast aside.  And we don’t know how angels come, and Christ condemned those who walked by the man in the ditch, so I have done my best to try to help all.

On the other hand, there are creeps out there.