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My theory is that Melissa and Raphael's marriage was strained and breaking down because of his drinking problems combined with stress from morally dubious things he had to do in his job. They argued a lot but maybe young Scott wasn't aware of how serious it was getting. I think one particularly bad day Raphael went too far and hit/physically abused Melissa and that was the tipping point for their divorce. Melissa called the Sheriff in confidence because she had to let somebody she trusted know what had happened. Or maybe Raphael had been heavily drunk and Melissa was afraid he'd self-harm when he realised what he'd done.

So Raphael moved away and they got divorced, but Melissa never told Scott how bad things were in the end. I think the Nogitsune was preying on Melissa's guilt about hiding the abuse from Scott when it said Scott would hate her.