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/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.