r/netflix • u/AnotherDarnDay • 2d ago

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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?

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u/RogueKitteh 2d ago

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

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u/EcstaticSky4987 2d ago

THIS EXACTLY. I can’t believe how lightly they skimmed over the HORRIFICALLY GRAPHIC sexual messages she was sending CHILDREN. And telling her daughter to kill herself? I’m just in disbelief. At the end she had the absolute audacity to compare what she did to drunk driving?! As if someone charged with a DUI is guilty of a crime the same par as her own? Drunk driving is irresponsible and obviously a horrible thing to do, but what she did is calculated and sinister. She is clearly a sick and twisted pedophile who was obsessed with her daughter’s boyfriend, and incredibly jealous of her own child. I hope this lady rots. I’m just disgusted.

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u/Radiant-Plum-5729 1d ago

Yeah, sending sexual messages to children is a crime, right?

Pedophiles have been convicted of 'sexual communications with a minor'.

It's no different from a perv sending sexual messages to a child on Instagram, for example.

Those poor kids were exposed to sexual stuff they were way too young to know about!

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u/Icy_Independent7944 1d ago

Yes, THANK YOU!

Has anybody ever seen “To Catch A Predator,” FFS?

Aren’t there all these laws now in place, newly-created and specially-crafted to where you can no longer evade justice, just because you did your vulgarity, stalking, grooming, and threatening online?

What the Hell is going on? How could they DOWNPLAY this???!!

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u/Radiant-Plum-5729 1d ago

Imagine this poor girl, her first real exposure to sexual stuff is from her own mother stalking her?

The sentence this mother got was way too lenient. She's a degenerate. Pure evil.

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u/Ready-Flamingo6494 1d ago

Exactly how was this just missed? Oh not a big deal because she’s the mom? WTF

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u/Neat_Panda9617 1d ago

Oh my god, it’s SOOOOOOO fucked up!

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u/ccccc55555x 1d ago

I would really like to actually read the text messages but can’t find it anywhere on line. It’s just the few that were featured in the Netflix show

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u/landofthehypocrites 1d ago

If I was Lauryn’s dad I would not let her speak to her mother. This woman is deranged and seems far from reformed 

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u/Maxismydog1981 8h ago

Considering Lauryn was 14 in 2020, she probably now an adult. The sick part is the mother is probably enjoying every minute of attention she is getting.