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[u/ohmyhellions]

Reading the comments here, most people agree Kendra is a psychopath and pedophile, which: yes absolutely. And I agree she needs to be locked away for a much longer time (and studied). But there are some other takes I had that I don’t see reflected. What do you think, and what unpopular opinions do you have? Please share:

1. Yes, obviously Kendra was fixated on Owen, even when he was still a little prepubescent boy (sick). And she was jealous of Lauryn for being with him. That’s all the comments I’ve read. But I believe it went much deeper than that. She was also deeply jealous that her daughter was growing into a pretty teenager who had her whole life ahead of her and hadn’t fucked up her marriage, finances and life like Kendra had. Owen was the target of her fixation but It wasn’t only about Owen. There’s a lot more going on. [Editing to add this thought: Kendra would have been happy to see her daughter or Owen die by suicide, so she could get closer to the other one and play the hero/get more attention).

2. I’m sorry but Owen’s parents/mother are not the heroes people are making them out to be. Why in the free world would they not take the kid’s phone away? He was being harassed into a place of suicidal ideation. They are terrible parents for letting him just deal with it while the mom pranced around pretending she was a star on Law & Order

3. Lauryn’s dad was an incompetent father and has some secrets of his own. I believe Kendra is a master manipulator but what the hell must he have been doing to not see signs that something was terribly wrong? I think he was having affairs/a double life or at the very least was willfully burying his head in the sand. What do you mean you trusted your wife to handle your daughter’s severe sexual harassment and abuse? You didn’t think you should help? You didn’t think the situation warranted all hands on deck? Where the hell were you the whole time? And all he could say about Lauryn now is that she’s “growing” and will be a “beautiful woman.” Something is also off with him.

4. Regarding Lauryn's non-emotional reaction to what her mom did to her: Lauryn never had close friends and was always quiet and withdrawn, per her peers. Owen said she was trying to isolate him from his friends so it was just “the two of us”. As far as we saw, Kendra was her primary parent, with barely any paternal involvement. Kendra’s sociopathic ways are normal to Lauryn because it’s all she knows. (I hope she gets a lifetime of therapy.) During the confession conversation, either she was in shock and, as any 15 year old child would be, confused and unable to process the emotions on the spot (and also focused on following an authority figure’s directions to call her dad) …or she knew or suspected her mom was behind this.

[u/pandorabach66]

I actually agree with all this except maybe I'm conflicted about Lauryn's dad. I think he was definitely avoidant and burying his head in the sand but I also had the impression he was working all the time.

I think you are 💯 about Owen's parents. wtf would you not at least change the kid's number? I think Mom was enjoying being involved in the drama a little too much.

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[u/No-Flower-4751 → u/pandorabach66]

I will say I also would have wanted to keep my phone number and get to the bottom of who it was that was sending the texts. The things that were said it was obvious it was someone they knew from the beginning so I wouldn’t be able to just change my phone number and let that go.

Not to mention, now that we know it was Kendra she likely would have just gotten ahold of his new phone number somehow, seeing as she for SURE would have just kept texting Lauryn regardless of a new phone number cuz it’s her daughter ofc she knows her number.

[u/ImGonnaCreamYaFunny → u/No-Flower-4751]

Exactly, she even said this in the documentary. She didn't just want to make the texts stop, she wanted to know who was saying that nasty shit to her kid. She said something like, "I want to know who it is, what if they're someone I've invited into our home?". She was wanting to get to the root of the issue so she didn't accidentally let the person have access to her child, and the cops didn't care because they thought it was just kids talking shit to each other.

[u/No-Flower-4751 → u/ImGonnaCreamYaFunny]

Ugh what’s wild is she was letting that person into her home too and had no idea. Apparently this is becoming more common than we thought, I went down 2 tiktok rabbit holes of people in random places in the US not Michigan but the same thing happened to them but with close friends parents and it’s like a push to make laws stronger cuz MI is one of the few states that actually recognizes stalking against minors as a worse crime than stalking adults.