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/Crazy-Employer-8394 2d ago

Bravo! All of this! This documentary was all sorts of fucked up and they created the sexualization of Owen as an afterthought and not like a key piece of the puzzle. Her bizarro rant that we all do some illegal things and like, no psycho, we are not the same.

And yeah, she definitely belongs in jail, and I am so beyond confused that Lauryn was able to forgive her at all, and at least they are physically separated for now. Cringe all around.

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u/mafaldajunior 2d ago

Sometimes it takes a long time for victims of abuse like Lauryn to realize what actually happened to them. Kendra is a master manipulator so I'm not surprised that Lauryn is still under her spell. What I don't understand is how the authorities are letting this happen. Where's the restraining order? Where's the sex offender regisration? Unbelievable.

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u/Physical_Orchid3616 1d ago

I guarantee you that in time, and it may be 10 years, it may be 20 years, Lauryn will come to realise the level of abuse hurled against her by her own mother. People do not forget.

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u/mafaldajunior 1d ago

For sure. I hope she'll get all the help and support that she needs.

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u/Palsyanna 1d ago

She is Lauren’s mother. No one needs to be calling this child out for wanting to hold on to her mother. Children will do anything to hold on to the belief that their parents are benevolent—it’s a survival mechanism. She hasn‘t “forgiven” her; she hasn’t processed the situation. I don’t know if it can be processed. The poor kid was still in that goddam school when this doc was made!

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u/Webbie-Vanderquack 1d ago

I completely agree with you, but to be fair, I read this not as u/Crazy-Employer-8394 "calling this child out for wanting to hold on to her mother," but rather expressing confusion about how Lauryn appears to have been left to make sense of this horrific abuse.

I was baffled by the explanation the police gave Lauryn when they came to the house. They were so unclear about what was going on, they didn't really even tell her what her mother had been accused of. "Mom got wrapped up into some stuff and she didn't start it but continued it?" "Sometimes when we're not thinking straight we do some things that aren't right?" What was the poor kid supposed to make of that? And they didn't seem to have any intention of arresting her or separating them.

They should have explained this to Lauryn very clearly and apart from her mother, with a clear explanation about what would happen next, and with a social worker or another adult present.

So it's not surprising Lauryn doesn't have a clear idea of how she's supposed to relate to her mother now, especially with the obvious love-bombing via text message.

TL;DR: I think we're all actually on the same page her, and not blaming Lauryn.