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What you failed to take into consideration was the fact that many teens live in homes where there is violence, abuse, drug problems and incest

This statement is just absurd.

Its not absurd, claiming there are many is not absurd.

Statistically they may be a small percentage of the teen population, but even 1% (Which is a small percentage of the teen population) adds up to MANY individuals. Even .1% would be MANY individuals, even if it is a statistically small percentage. I think the issue here is the parent didn't take the childs warning about her parents harming her seriously, because nearly all teens are meladramatic about their parents "killing them" for this or that. So most folks would never bother to ask a kid, "Do your parents abuse or beat you?" when they hear such a statement, the defacto just assume is the usual teenage drama and angst. Unfortunately there are indeed situations where it isn't, and now this person knows that for this girl they aren't.

Hopefully this "parent" will now face the full brunt of the law and be locked up for a long long time, if not worse.

I'm kinda amazed from the opposite side.

If I had gotten preggers as a teen,
I'd have been dead.

No joke....that was one of those unforgivables, 'you're damned forever so I'll take you out' sins.

I know girls who got the crapped kicked out of them for getting pregnant.... It was a warning to the rest of us I guess.

With that being said, I think the letter is a hoax.

As I posted earlier, the reason I think this letter to Dear Abby was a fake is that the teenage girl herself would know her father really may kill her, and wouldn't be taking advice from a friend's mother on this. It is possible, as you wrote, that the mother who (supposedly) wrote the letter would not realize how dangerous her daughter's friend's father is, but, again, the girl herself would know that. Any teenager who comes from a household where one or both parents beats the kids up would visit more normal households and see the difference and know that the more normal people would never understand what chaotic households are like. Teenagers who come from the types of families Abby is ostensibly concerned with would ne unlikely to go to court to get abortions, anyway; they would runaway. The girls who would be organized enough to go to court to get around notifying their parents are most likely to be girls from solid families, girls who do not want to face their parents' disapproval.