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/mafaldajunior 2d ago

Totally agree with you. I just can't believe how badly all of this was handled. Why didn't they arrest Kenda on the spot as soon as she confessed? How on Earth was she still allowed to communicate with Lauryn, even from prison! She should have been charged for a lot more than stalking. She tried to push two kids to kill themselves and framed two other kids for her crimes. She sent pornographic messages to kids. She committed insurance fraud and scammed her own husband. A year and a half prison for all that and still having access to communication devices is ridiculous.

And I hate that this documentary gave Kenda so much airtime. "We've all done wrong things". Err, excuse me, but no. None of us do things as bad as cyberbullying kids, sending them sexually explicit texts, and threatening to kill them if they don't kill themselves first. What an absolute pos she is.

She should still be in prison and not get a single second of airtime or communication. The damage that she must still be causing her daughter is unfathomable.

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u/Full_Egg_4731 1d ago

The fact that she even wanted to be a part of this doc shows me she hasn’t changed at all.

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u/mafaldajunior 1d ago

Hear hear

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

It is very clear Kendra was actually having fun.

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u/LouisvilleLoudmouth 7h ago

Brilliant comment. The whole time I was watching I thought it was a parent, but also that nobody in their right mind would agree to participate if they were guilty.

Except a narcissist with no sense of shame.

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u/Webbie-Vanderquack 1d ago

How on Earth was she still allowed to communicate with Lauryn, even from prison!

I don't understand this either. She sent her constant streams of texts full of explicit sexual messages and instructions to take her own life for almost two years, and now she's replaced that with constant streams of texts full of love-bombing. How are the authorities okay with that? It means that, at the end of the day, the abused child is the one who has been left with the task of dealing with her own abuser.

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u/mafaldajunior 1d ago

I don't even understand how inmates in max security prisons have access to phones. There's something really fishy on the law inforcement side of things for this many weird things to have happened.

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u/jtet93 1d ago

I’m pretty sure they said it was emails. Still gross but it’s not like she had 24/7 access to contact her daughter

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u/mafaldajunior 22h ago

I remember them mentioning text messages but I could be wrong

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u/SaltySallyanne 1d ago

Exactly. Why was she not arrested immediately?