Brian Laundrie’s parents shunned by Florida community over Gabby Petito’s murder following Netflix docuseries

[u/TheMirrorUS]

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/brian-laundries-parents-shunned-florida-984726

[u/rayquan36]

I'd encourage him to turn himself in but I'm not making the phone call.

[u/milesamsterdam → u/rayquan36]

Follow up question, what if he does it again? How many women would he have to kill before you do turn him in? If he had killed more than one woman he dated and he brings home another girlfriend would you warn her?

[u/rayquan36 → u/milesamsterdam]

Honestly who really knows what they're going to do in their parents situation? A lot of people say their morals would have them turning in their child. It's really easy to say stuff like that on Reddit when there's absolutely no consequences and it makes you look like a morally superior person but I can't imagine it's easy to pick up the phone and tell the cops to come and take your son away forever.

[u/angelic-beast → u/rayquan36]

They don't take people away forever, if you turn yourself in and cooperate you can get less than a life sentence. Even then your parents can still visit you and speak to you. Its hard but its unequivocally the right thing to do. These parents did however lose their son forever by letting him go off to kill himself instead of taking accountability for his actions. As a parent you have to be ready to do the hard shit or it fucks up your kids even worse.

I can see saying you wouldn't know what you would do in a situation with your child in trouble with the law, and true, no one can predict perfectly what we would do, but I would hope we can all agree that even if its hard the right thing to do is to turn them in for things like murder. It would have saved the other family some anguish in the delay to finding her body and could have saved his life too. The parents took the worst route in this case imo.