Unknown Number High-school Catfish

[u/AnotherDarnDay]

What the hell did I just watch? And what the hell was this person thinking?

I'm in shock that someone would do such a thing to their own child. And that she doesn't seem to have any focus on what she actually did.

The daughter didn't seem to grasp what her mother did when they told her but the father acted on it right away.

Was she totally jealous of her own daughter?

[u/RogueKitteh]

So livid after watching this. Holy hell. Let me rant some thoughts/questions I have after watching.

How did the cops not immediately separate Kendra from her daughter/victim when they came to the house?? Instead they let her creepily hold/pet her? Wtf?

Why was the sexual component treated like an afterthought?? Why weren't there specific charges relating to that and why when they did briefly touch on that with Owen's mother did they try to sugarcoat it with older pictures of him instead of younger pictures of him when it actually started to drive home how creepy and fucked up it was?

Why did they give a platform to Kendra after sexually harassing children? Why did they try to humanize her and make us sympathetic with her to some degree? Would they do that with a grown man who sent equally sexually explicit messages to children?

Why didn't they focus more on how Kendra went after the new girl that Owen was talking to and her mother and what that means? I.e. that she did in fact have a fixation on him that went beyond her daughter

Why are they ALLOWING ANY contact between Lauryn and her mother after everything??

That woman belongs under the jail. For life.

Lauryn needs a world of therapy. It's almost like she needs deprogramming even

[u/OkVermicelli3588 → u/RogueKitteh]

You saved me a lot of time typing my thoughts. I don’t think I’ve ever been so shocked & disturbed. 

That woman is next level psycho sociopath. 

This was sexual for her-  She got off on this in some sick twisted way.  She wanted her daughter‘s boyfriend and I feel like she really did hate that her daughter was so pretty because let’s face it. Mama’s hit every branch on the way down!  She wants to blame it on her rape? YOU RAPED YOUR CHILDS MIND…& many others!  I’m gonna go out on a limb & say I bet she wasn’t even raped.  Women suffer all types of abuse & don’t resort to such depravity especially against her own child. 

And then she kind of wants to chuckle & say “well a lot of people do bad things I mean a lot of people have drove drunk but don’t get caught”  WTF!?!?  Your out if your mind!!

And the way the parents reacted to each other even the dad when police arrived, way too calm & collected like…-ohh ok it was actually my wife the whole time?  And did you say she got fired too? She’s lying about her job. I’m so confused?-   my husband would’ve physically picked me up and immediately removed me from the house! At minimum yelled in my face called me names and would ask me what th F wrong with you how could you have done this to our child?

And honestly, the most disturbing thing is that the poor girl wants her mom still and is taking up for her! 

The crazy woman that had no accountability and made light of what she had done still has her daughter THE VICTIM as her one and only friend and cheerleader? WOW master manipulator.

My son was bullied in middle school, it was on a super low scale basically a mean, girl saying some mean things, but for him, it felt like the weight of the world. It crushed him, he was devastated and felt like everyone hated him just because of one person.   I was heartbroken for him and watched him go through some really tough times. That small amount of bullying left him scarred. 

I cannot on any level fathom how scrambled her daughter‘s brain is after this, and that is not to leave out the other victims, but YOUR MOTHER verbally sexually emotionally traumatize you for over a year of your life.  And no siblings to talk to I imagine not too many friends. That was her first love, Everyone remembers their first love, a really sweet relationship you’re supposed to look back on and treasure.  Her mother was like JAWS On the 4th of July!  She came in and massacred. what a uniquely sick and twisted individual

[u/Weekly-Role-1132 → u/OkVermicelli3588]

I actually thought the husbands reaction was valid. He was most likely in shock but he immediately called her parents to pick her up and said she had to leave. He believed the officers and took action no questions asked. His daughter was also present so he probably tried to remain calm for her while he processed everything.

Finding out your wife was abusing/stalking your daughter and that she lied about having a job for 2 years at the same time would be hard to take in all at once.

[u/Englishmatters2me → u/OkVermicelli3588]

I pray Lauren comes out of this sane

[u/Party_Ad_4918 → u/OkVermicelli3588]

You said everything I was thinking and more! I have a 13 yr old daughter and I couldn't imagine. She's had the same boyfriend for going on 3 years now as well. I couldn't believe the things she was saying. I'm so disgusted! I read a lot of stuff but this documentary has pissed me off so badly.

[u/hoosiergirl1962 → u/OkVermicelli3588]

Sorry, not laughing because any of this is funny, but I'm chuckling over you saying "hit every branch on the way down". When I was a teen I once heard my dad say that someone "fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down" and I honest to god thought he made that up.

[u/Webbie-Vanderquack → u/OkVermicelli3588]

That woman is next level psycho sociopath...The crazy woman...

Some people are just plain bad, not mad. She might be a psychopath/sociopath (the formal diagnosis would be Antisocial Personality Disorder), but I think you were right on the money when you said "this was sexual for her - she got off on this in some sick twisted way."

She developed an attraction to the daughter's boyfriend which became an obsession, and she enjoyed stalking him and destroying the competition.

I believe she's using mental illness as an excuse, when in fact this was just a crime motivated by something she wanted. In the same way that a depraved individual might harm or kill another person for money, this woman was willing to hunt and destroy children, even her own, in order to preserve and enjoy the obsession she had with her daughter's boyfriend.

If she had been a man, it would absolutely have been viewed this way.

[u/landofthehypocrites → u/Webbie-Vanderquack]

I disagree, someone who spends up to 8 hours a day for over a year stalking their child thru text messages is mentally ill. Even after they broke up she continued bombing her child with threats and degrading texts. From her interviews you can see that she still doesn’t grasp the severity of her actions and that she is far from reformed. I think two things can be true at the same time , she may like the young boy and also have serious psychopathy