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/Englishmatters2me]

Exactly. Everytime she touched her i wanted to scream. If I was the father I would have yanked my daughter away from her. At first I thought it was Munchausen syndrome, but adding in all.the factors surrounding Owen..she is a pedophile and is jealous of her beautiful daughter. Sad all around 

[u/WandaFuca → u/Englishmatters2me]

I think it was one of the FBI guys who even called it "Cyber-Munchausen" which I thought was pretty astute. My heart breaks for the daughter who still wants a mother, but can't see that hers isn't worthy of the title.

[u/snacky_snackoon → u/Englishmatters2me]

I did find a small amount of comfort in her daughter not being receptive at all to the weird hugging as the cops were there. She kept her arm on the table. Never hugged back. Just looked like she was stuck there in shock.

[u/pudgiedee → u/snacky_snackoon]

I was watching that and she does put her arm around her Mom at one point. that was so confusing. I wasn’t sure if she was even shocked.

[u/Pink_Dragon_Lady → u/pudgiedee]

Someone on another thread references some NY Times article that implies Lauryn figured it out about a month before the cops did... *shrug*

[u/pudgiedee → u/Pink_Dragon_Lady]

oh wow that horrible

[u/Longjumping_Elk2580 → u/Englishmatters2me]

Same feeling.. I jumped in my skin when she is hugging her daughter.. she probably convinced her daughter that she can't live without her

[u/Maxismydog1981 → u/Englishmatters2me]

There is something really messed up about mothers who compete with their teen daughters for attention.