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/Cultural-Chart3023 2d ago

Yea the way she made it sound like she didn't do anything wrong everyone does something I was just caught... no.. wtf?! She clearly hasn't learned from it and has no genuine remorse she should not be free in society let alone still contact with her daughter wtaf

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

omg when she said “everyone has done something illegal” it’s like no bish EVERYONE has not.

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u/MamaOwlInGlasses 1d ago

Well and focusing on the “they just don’t get caught” part as what separates what she did from whatever infraction “everyone else” does. Really said to me that she doesn’t view WHAT she did (stalking, emotionally and psychologically abusing two children, plus sending them graphic sexually inappropriate content NONSTOP for literally two years) was wrong or any worse than any other thing someone might do, the only thing that really matters to her is that people found out it was her so she had to pay the social and legal consequences. Just really disturbing.

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

absolutely. Beyond disturbing and so bone chilling! I also really wondered about the husband and daughter’s reaction to finding out. Yes, everyone handles shock in different ways, but the husband was just obsessed with the fact that she wasn’t working/lying and not like WTF why were you sexually physically and emotionally harassing our daughter for this long?! and the daughters share silence of it all - I just don’t understand those reactions. Maybe they did know after all!

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u/MamaOwlInGlasses 1d ago

So, my interpretation of the dad reacting to the work thing was a little different: throughout the doc, they said that she took care of all finances and exerted a lot of control, and that they were having financial trouble. Turned out she wasn’t paying bills so they got evicted several times AND lost everything in their storage units of value (functional, monetary, and sentimental by the sound of it). It also sounded like there may have even been some insurance fraud (according to the cousin lady) to cover up her lack of income, but obviously that’s not something she was charged with so that is conjecture. They also were saying that she was like fully faking having a job, so I think that revelation was about him realizing how big her deception was to their whole family, in ways that emotionally and financially impacted all of them. So that was my take on his reaction about the jobs.

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

The husband does not impress me as the sharpest tool in the shed. lol

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

Ah okay, good way to put it. And then maybe given that they knew something was up - like why are they getting evicted, etc.. maybe they were in denial or enabling her and so maybe they weren't really that surprised at the end of the day. :(

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u/Excellent-Cable-1366 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes she started with everyone does something illegal and only a few gets caught? WTF! She wants to generalise what she did and also assumes everyone does things like this? Also said she didn’t start it she just continued it then who started it? She’s a liar.