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Casey Anthony had 2 different boyfriends sleeping in bed with her and Kaylee

​@2422Chris I can't believe I'm going to say this but I truly believe this is even worse. Being in the bed with your child and a boyfriend and allowing a boyfriend alone just seems soo much more wrong.

I’m not sure Dr. John disagrees, he’s simply showing WHY a person behaves that way. It doesn’t excuse her criminal neglect, it simply explains why

I and many others are also on the hill.

You’re on a very crowded hill

@judysanders5591 I agree. I don't think her expressed desire to ESCAPE to the woods was at all metaphorical. Maybe a bit fantastical but not metaphorical.

The woods were where I found peace and quiet when I was a child. Maybe Maddie felt the same way. My heart breaks for her.

This is what fuels the “id rather be in the woods alone with a bear” trend

When real life is more frightening and horrific than ANYTHING, the “dark scary” woods could possibly contain. A lot of children are terrified of the woods. It truly does speak volumes. It couldn’t be any worse than what she was living on a daily basis.

That’s right, completely

Absolutely right

I have an almost 3 year old daughter. Her dad and I separated when she was only months old, and I haven’t even attempted to date or consider dating because of stories I hear like this. HOWEVER, and I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, but a part of me is almost relieved to know that Jen really is just a pos mother because it’s a scarier thought for me to think that you would be seeing someone that long & be absolutely oblivious to that level of abuse. Jen has solidified what I’ve always believed, she is complacent, willfully ignorant, and culpable. the naive act is palpable with this one. I can’t decide if she was stunted or traumatized as a teenager, but there are parts of this interview that she sounds like one. It’s frustrating to listen to her answer these questions like an unassuming dependent airhead, it’s down right infuriating that she’s giving answers she thinks they want to hear, not what would give the answer needed in order to obtain justice for her daughter. It’s downright disgusting behavior. In my opinion, all women are innately mothers, and that is why it so foreign and strange for us, as a gender, to see someone go against that. I have zero sympathy for Jen Soto after this. I tried to have empathy for her, but I can’t even hypothesize my daughter in Madeline’s shoes, without getting upset/panicked by just the prospect of it. This interview she’s giving is mid April. She knows what happened to her daughter. Things that I can’t even imagine my daughter going through without being upset, and NOT ONCE did I hear her cry. Not one time. And maybe not everyone cries, but where is the sorrow? I’ve listened to that interview twice now. Coming full circle to foreign nature of Jen’s behavior, I’m trying to find any little glimmer of this woman actually being a mother in grief and there isn’t a damn thing. This is so heartbreaking & Im sending all my love directly to that baby that deserve all the love in the world. I really hope that there is another family member on this Earth that loves that girl enough to get some sense in them and speak up against Jen. This woman needs to be held accountable. I’m sorry but it’s the truth.

​@@kyleek.cosmos3371I am done with her also. Tried to give her the benefit of the doubt but no way! She knew what was going and she chose to let it happen so the POS Stephan would stay!!! She should have never been granted immunity and they made a big mistake giving it to her!!! She should at least be charged with child neglect! When she found out what Stephan had done she called his father and said you need to get Stephan a lawyer. Are you kidding me!!!! What about your daughter!! You did not protect her the way a mom is suppose too!!!

I agree, For me it was my safe place from my home. From a brother that was a-busive in every way & a mother that was emotionally checked out & a father that was never home.

I’m also from northern Michigan the woods around here are truly beautiful and peaceful I have so many wonderful memories in the woods i also wanted to live in the woods and I still do at 30

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I hope you achieved some level of healing and are happy today! Thank you for sharing.

Agree 100%. Montana girl here. The woods were (and still are) a sanctuary.

i get the feeling they’re selling the photos on the dark web. Why have so many saved? Somebody had to pay that new car payment, insurance, drugs, & all SS crappy man toys.

Yes I’ve thought this too @Sheeza

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She was afraid of every other situation but ignored the one in her own house

I agree and even the film of her being sent to heaven. 😡​@@SheezaPI

Ikr, even if she didn't have any in her phone, there must've been some in her cloud/or google photos. This monster of a woman needs to be in jail too! Should be facing charges.

That stuck out to me too. And when she just had her 13th birthday… come on. And then didn’t SS even bring up the photos from the party? Made my stomach flip.

I did not know that. That is extremely telling. That there was no affected for her little girl.

But SS had PLENTY of photos, but that's right, he couldn't show THOSE to the police.

@lindesyhendrjx it was weird to me that she didn’t go to the party. But let’s say she really had to work. She had the next day off…and she doesn’t even get up early to take her daughter to breakfast and school. She has her weirdo boyfriend do it after making them sleep together elsewhere.

I don't think Jenn was naive. I think she didn't care.

I thought the condo had 3 bedrooms.

@@trishallen1546It had 4 bedrooms. The master was Jen’s room downstairs and there were 3 bedrooms upstairs. Two of the bedrooms upstairs were rented out to roommates and Stephan’s father was paying $600 a month for the 4th bedroom.

@@starflower703Yet Madeleine, her own daughter and resident of the home was delegated to a portioned off area in the living room. Maddie should have had her own bedroom with a deadbolt and slide lock on her door that she could lock from the inside. No access for anyone else. I’m being facetious, of course. However, this story would have turned out differently if Jen had protected her daughter just a drop, in ANY manner whatsoever.

Mother is A ACCESSORY TO M

Ditto

She said it was because the grandfather wanted that room to be rented out after SS moved. But, I totally agree with you!

@@SisterGoldenHair212 I heard that, we now know she is a liar! So doubt the grandfather is kicking a child out of a room

1st Maddie had no privacy as a young lady. 2nd In Jens' last interview She states" I wanted her to have her own room, but my Father really wanted RENT!" Meanwhile her father was allegedly getting 2,500 combined in rent for all rooms.Jen and Sterns were broken up and still sharing a room and keeping Maddie in a predator sandwich!Even though room 4 was paid for by a 3rd party,and unoccupied Maddie still couldn't have her own rm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Then Jen states" ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT A SLEEPOVER!!"so she never allowed her to stay over at a friend's or likewise.. Meanwhile she makes Maddie have sleepovers with Sterns?! Nothing Jen has said makes me believe she's innocent as far as I'm concerned They tortured this poor girl.

Not to mention her bed was shoved up against the sliding glass door…

​@@SisterGoldenHair212then she should have rented it for Maddie she can afford a brand new car and Botox she can afford a bedroom for Maddie .

She did I'm hoping they're gathering evidence to charge her with SOMETHING. Child endangerment or neglect or a dozen other crimes I've hope but the longer she's free hope wanes.😢

Hope this Mom didn't see this as better her than me. As in, then SS won't be bothering JS for sex, if he goes to her daughter. It's twisted, however this bs happens.

​@@unazitella702She was hugging SS in the police interiew. He is showing indifference to her. It is so obvious how he feels about her. Plus it seems he was selling abuse online. Why her age mattered.😢

@@pennyc11 What do you mean by your last statement?

@@unazitella702 It looks very clear to me? What part do you not understand? Jenn and SS interviews are all over YT. Pictures of the victim were suggested to be traded for profit.

I strongly agree with you.

@@bronwyn117 Totally agree 💯%

You’d be surprised how many moms defend her actions because they do it too

Isn’t there a law against this? If there isn’t, there ought to be.

Men who use violence, coercive control, manipulation and gaslighting target people like Jen. The manipulation started with Jen. I don't like all the victim blaming.

I wondered the same.

Did Maddie ever have anyone sleep over ? Cousins? friends ? Surly the invesgators would have asked this question already

@cherylschumaker1366 I remember on one of the interviews with Jen, I think it was in April. They asked Jen if Maddie ever slept at anyone's overnight and Jen said No, you never know about people or something like that. But I don't remember if they asked her if anyone ever spent the night at Maddies.

The father revoked his custodial rights when Maddie was an infant and he denied being her father. Once DCFS asks if a man who is named as the father wants to voluntarily take responsibility for the child and the man refuses, he is given a paternity test on the dollar of that state agency and with this refusal, if it is found that he is actually the father, he can no longer claim that he wants custody of that child. It’s a done deal. Not only will the father then have to pay child support or have it garnished from his wages, but the mother will get full custodial rights of the care for that child and he can seek visitation, but he doesn’t have to, and clearly he didn’t want to very badly because he didn’t exercise that ability and it doesn’t matter what reason he had for not doing so, he didn’t do it.

She needed the money cause she supported a monster .

@@jessieessex1000% correct. Maddie’s bio was irresponsible as well imo.

Same for me. Hugs. 💜

Same here friend ❤

Same. We survived. Maddie represents all of us little girls that lived through it. Hugs❤ may she rest in peace and know how much her life and death has affected us. I feel stronger because of Maddie❤❤❤

It's epidemic that few want to address. So happy we survived. I hope you were able to find some level of happiness and freedom from abuse. I still struggle with trying to sleep 50 years later. Yet, I want to be supportive of those who are fighting against CA.

And don’t discount her saying the sex stuff wasn’t evil. She knew imo.

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“ after listening to you talk about Jenn's mental health I actually felt a twinge of sympathy for Jenn”. It’s not about being sympathetic, it’s about UNDERSTANDING, not excusing her actions.

I agree. Jennifer and Stephan may have had an agreement😢

That thing about getting a lawyer, could mean that «he is in deep S- now». It depends upon how much she has been into legal thinking. He has a right to a lawyer.. I think most people think that she wants to protect him. The kindness experienced in Madeline could have been a trait in her mother. In kind thinking, a person in deep S- needs a lawyer.

again... no-one helped this child.

Maddie never had a chance in this life.

Was she?? Poor baby girl

And why did the GMA not say okay stay with me? 🙆🏻‍♀️

Yes! This reminds me of my niece who is 13. When I found out she was not safe at home I immediately called CPS and tried to get her out of there. She cried in my house that she just wanted to stay here and I was heartbroken. Poor Maddie had no one to care about her. She deserved so much better.

100%

Who tracks their daughter’s period?

@@loriswenson2276 exactly! She KNEW!

Every adult failed her but now the public is fighting for justice and justice will prevail. I hope we find the exact truth as to what really happened the time she was killed and why it happened. May the full truth come out.

​@@Speakupok 🎯💯❤

So your mother knew what was happening and did nothing? If so it makes me believe even stronger that js knew. I'm so sorry for your experiences through life and I hope you heal from that.

Me too. I will never forgive my mother either. I do have kids, and I am hypervigilant and a bit of a 🚁 mom. My husband is the same.

@@helutkakizia9476 I’m sorry you went through that 💔 it’s understandable that you didn’t have children but it’s also a shame you didn’t have a chance to love on your child the way you wanted to be loved on by your mother. It does help to heal ironically. As you get older you understand the humanity of your abusive parent and why they turned out the way they did. Doesn’t mean you condone what they did to you but you see them as they are/were: a weak human. I’ve noticed that many times, childhood abuse survivors turn out to be stronger than the average person with a “normal” childhood and a force to be reckoned with. But when the abuse is suppressed rather than healed through “the work” it can become self-destructive and destructive to those around the survivor/victim. It’s not an easy road. For some of us, our children become the inspiration to heal, grow, evolve and prepare them for the evil in this world. Wishing you an abundance of peace 🙏🏻🩷

Did you see the grandmother’s interview? She seems so very cold - it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find this is generational abuse

@angeliqueschmidts2555 Hi Angelique my "Jen" had support she needed. She just chose to choose herself. 🤎

Triangulation is a typical tactic of narcissists so this makes total sense!

I think Jenn knew what was going on. No amount of triangulation or manipulation on SS’s part can amend that.

This is strongly what I have felt was happening.

Yes 100%.

Most people are cowards and lazy.

Bless your kind soul

Sure seems like people don’t give a F about the work they do. The school and home lives of kids can be so awful. To me the whole scenario with them screams SA.

Counselors therapists and drs let Maddie down as well imo .

I also picked up that Jen was jealous of her own child. How awful she did not attend her daughter's thirteenth birthday, a huge leap in a child's development. Telling Maddie she was going to kick her out when she turned thirteen. So sad it breaks my heart.

@@Tess-163 it seems EVERY ONE failed every one...

@@luciaseacreature8705 When your young time goes so slow, it’s horrifying to imagine this little girl suffering 7 years in that living hell. JS should also be in a jail cell.

I am so sorry you had to go through that. I experienced it as well. It’s taken me many years and lots of counseling to work through it. My mother passed in December 2022 on hospice under my care. My mother’s loss has definitely stirred up all the feelings associated with the abuse, neglect, and blame. And despite everything I have experienced, I forgave my mother; because she was abused even worse as a child. Her father was an alcoholic and beat his children. Her mother withdrew to cope, neglecting her children. My grandmother’s brother molested my mother starting at age 12 that went on for over 4 years. It even happened once after she married my father. Thankfully my father confronted her abuser and told him he would never touch my mother again or he wouldn’t like my father’s reaction. My father wasn’t normally a violent man, but he put fear into the man abusing my mother and the abuse stopped. And when it happened to me, my father did everything he could to protect me and rescue me from the situation.

@@starflower703 I got you! We have been through similar SHIZZ. Hidden true Crime has given me a platform/plane I feel Dave to share. We shall heel together! 🥰🫶🏼

I’m so sorry for the way your mother betrayed you and for all your pain. ❤️ I’m sure you worked hard to get through it, I don’t know you, but I’m very proud of you. Please take good care of yourself, always. 🌸🙏🏻

I'm so sorry that you were dismissed in such a cold hearted and uncaring way by your mother. You sound like a very caring and compassionate person. I wish you all the best.🥰

I'm so sorry

No what's sickening is our lack of justice and punishment in regards to this nonsense

So true. Predators love to target vulnerable, single parents, just to manipulate and gain access to their young children. It's so disgusting and infuriating. But parents need to be more aware when bringing new people into their lives. Don't ignore the little red flags!

His mother could also have alerted the childcare authorities.

Absolutely agree with you. ThT poor child was ignored by everyone. The person who should of protected her the most was only concerned for herself. I despise both of these monsters. VILE CREATURES !

@@karenbaldry8096 Dr John’s heartfelt concern that Maddie was “unseen” 😢❤ Even most of her friends from school choosing NOT to go to her Birthday Celebration just days b4 she’s murdered! Very TRAGIC STORY! STERNS MAY EVEN SEE THE DP FROM HIS JURY - FL JURIES DON’T PLAY NICE! SICK-SAD-SACK!

Absolutely. It is disgraceful that women who are single parents, especially of girls, HAVE to have a man when these children need them to give them the attention they need... she wouldn't let her go to sleepovers with her girlfriends for fear of something weird happening, but yet let her daughter sleep with her boyfriend by herself. WTH?? It's disgusting and so neglectful. I was a single mom of a boy and I never had a man spend the night with me or have any contact with my son until he was in college. My son was far more important than a man but there are a lot of women that just cannot live without a man and they'll do anything to keep one.

At the very least. 🤬

They would need to prove she had prior knowledge of the abuse. It's almost impossible to prove. I don't understand why ANY parent would allow their child to sleep with any adult other than a parent at any age. This is especially egregious between a 13 year old girl and a man known to be mentally and emotionally unstable. If she didn't know something was going on, it's just as bad IMO.

Schools are overwhelmed and underfunded.

​@@TinyRanter what about the other adults in Maddie's life? Grandma, aunt, grandpa, SS's parents??? EVERY SINGLE ADULT FAILED MADDIE!!

That's completely different, that was your choice, sexual abuse is not a choice of the victim

@sj9410. I am well aware of the circumstances surrounding what happened to this poor girl. I was comparing the difference in schools/teachers, and you don't know how or why I ended up how I was. Sometimes, it is NOT a choice, and it is not who I am today. But that is NOT what my post was about. It's about how so many adults failed Maddie, that none of her teachers said anything until after it was over. So come on down off of your high horse, and look for the real meaning in people's posts. Jerk.

Probably didn’t want to be around Stephen

That broke my heart. Her last birthday.

That broke my heart too. Abandoned on her last birthday.

All I can hope is that she was drugged or asleep when this abuse happened. Makes me so sick to think what she endured.

Mel, such a beautiful poem for Maddie. Gut wrenching yet beautiful. She will have a legacy that was so brutally stolen from her. Thank you for writing the words that needed to be said for her ❤

Beautiful poem Mel ❤

@@wendywoobles -- Thank you so much for your very kind words, Wendy. Maddie deserves justice and deserves to be heard; and, if I managed to touch a few hearts with the words that I imagined she'd use, then I've done something worthwhile for Maddie.

@@toribern816 -- Thank you very much, Tori. ❤

After all the poem broke me...and I cried after a very long time. Thank you

Not even insuate- She straight up said it. Oh that made me SO angry when she tried to soften it by dropping that in with a casual tone. That beast is most definitely a creation of her making.

@@Nous520 I agree she enabled that 👿 his whole life

There was an interview with one of SS previous roommates, and this man said that he found CSA images on the computer. That SS mother paid him off not to report it. I cannot find it online now.

Jennifer had married someone else. The father never knew. He was in the military. It was a one time thing. Advised after the fact and he had married too. He paid child support. All the toddler and younger photos of Madeline are provided by her father’s wife - side of the family. You do not know whether Jennifer withheld Madeline during periods from the father. The father lives in Texas. He has money constraints and he and his wife of many years did not have children. The father was as much as he could be in her life. (I believe Jennifer was abusing the welfare system and taking all kinds of medication. Why did her mother not pick up that she was being abused from photos as young as 8. Perhaps even younger).

@@Queen-Stationyeah I don't like the blame on maddies dad. Many of us have to live away from our fathers, it doesn't mean he wasn't financially supporting or talking to her regularly. I lived 5 hours away from my dad but he was still the best he could be! I'm sure he has many regrets too.

MS visited her Dad & stepmother, however Jen kept MS from them. There's an interview with MS father & his wife. They said that they would've loved to have MS with them full-time. It was early on in the case.

Any mother knows that instinctively. Just from being a young girl at some point, you know what men can be capable of with young girls and not to risk it. She knew.

Same for me. 💜 Thank oddness men like Dr. John are in this world. I could never do that work, not when kids are involved.

Same! I would definitely not act the way Jen did, he would be in prison! There is NO way Jen didn't know, or even argue about him eating all the food ect on what Maddie had told the counselor yet she made her child sleep on the same bed! Not in a million years would I ever allow a man sleep on the same bed with any of my children Male or female. She just wanted to keep him around so she gave her daughter away. Probably blamed Maddie for his disgusting perversion towards this poor angel. RIP Maddie you deserve loved, nurtured and protected.

I don’t think Jenn noticed anything but Stephan

@@alisonkalbskopf6817 I disagree, there was a reason why she seemed to dislike her own child.

@@alisonkalbskopf6817 I disagree, there was a reason why she seemed to dislike her own child.

​@@alisonkalbskopf6817 i dont think she noticed him too much either. She only noticed herself. Her sleep, her schedule, her rest, her peace.

Children are something like 80% more likely to be abused or killed in a home with a step parent figure than with both parents or just a single parent. People need to stay with the other parent until the kids are grown. Make your choice and stick with it. As long as that person is a good parent, you won the lottery these days.

@@notsorry3631 💯

It is so sad how overlooked she was in her life only to be a headline due to her monster's abuse. It's so, so sad. 😢

FACTS

But some do 😢

I could only imagine, I have no kids and this case infuriates the SHIT outta me

Girls and women with ADHD and ASD, and disabilities, are also more likely to be abused statistically than their neurotypical counterparts. This is important to recognize. It is hard to determine you’re correct as some of the symptoms of trauma can look similar to the traits of those disorders. I myself was one such girl. Because of developmental issues we are easier targets and often neglected or emotionally and physically abused by teachers and at home.

@rebeccagomez4874 Yes so, that would mean JS would have been there in bed during the years of abuse. Right there in the same bed beside them. IMO

Yes so that would mean that JS was present during all the years of the abuse in the same bed , except for the handful of times. IMO

They even slept all together with MADDIE IN THE MIDDLE!! Any decent man would be opposed to that. Jenn is useless and complicit.

Any mother should be opposed to that

Is it possible, the friends did not want to encounter SS at the birthday party?

Teri what a tragic horrible experience you survived. I am so shocked and sorry. 😢

Teri, I am sorry. I'm glad that you somehow survived. God Bless You . Thank you for sharing.

I’m so sorry you were in/are in this kind of nightmare. I hope and pray you find love, safety, and peace. 🙏

Maybe the parents of those kids will eventually be interviewed

@@radvibes i hope so

I had the same thought. I think everyone hated him and JS got isolated from her family and friends because of him.

Counselor should have asked more pointed questions.

@@suefairbrother3556 Constantly hanging out and eating their food might annoy a child, especially one who isn’t having their emotional needs met by their parent but instead she used the word “uncomfortable” which is telling. If anything her follow up narrative should have hoisted the red flags further as it did not align with what one would have expected as an answer given the vocabulary of her initial statement. Of course her discomfort around him would not have necessarily suggested S/A right off the bat as that could be caused by a number of things but it definitely deserved a deeper look at least to the point of a reasonably plausible explanation given by the child.

Wow you honestly brought a very interesting 🤔 point... SS did say that they punished her for finding inappropriate pictures..but that cld have been his pictures that he took of her...and Jenn blame her own daughter..rather than look further into it and see why was her daughter doing this and if Maddie had denied it than she shld have kicked SS out .. because who else wld do.that to her..wow..u really open my eyes on this...cuz Jenn shld had notice the red flags from that point on....😢

​@LoveFlowers1 may I respectfully make the.point that you also did not see it. How3ver in hinsight after someone enlightend you. You can see the situation for its worth. That's sometimes how it is for a.mentally 7nstable person. They didn't see the danger until after. She was problsbly j7st gaslit by steph a n and chose to ignore her warning bells which because of her own trauma may not ring as loud as yours Hindsight

@@southernbridal That's one outlook, after looking at the glut of the evidence, and it's a lot, including Jenn saying about the man who horrifically abused and unalived her daughter that him abusing he wasn't evil, just offing her was evil, her eagerness to protect him while showing no such concern for her daughter, etc, I quite reasonably believe she willfully allowed the abuse at best and may have actively participated. Who sees an inappropriate picture of their tiny daughter's private parts (and that's what I have been led to believe it was) on her boyfriends phone and lets that go by chiding the child?

Great comment 😢

The husband that left wasn’t Maddie’s father. It was another man that had a child of his own that left and got his child to safety. Maddie’s Dad lives in Texas I believe and still yet to understand why he left her in Jenn’s complete care.

That ex husband wasn’t Maddie’s bio father. He was a stepdad who had his own child. Maddie’s bio dad was never married to Jenn and lived in another state. To suggest that people angry at Jenn is a “witch hunt” is insulting. She seriously neglected her daughter and actively put her in harm’s way. Bipolar doesn’t take away your god-given ability to discern that your child sleeping with your boyfriend is a bad idea. It doesn’t make you lie to the police about the last time you saw your daughter alive…

​@@beautifulmermaid718he was actually Stephan's friend and they continued communicating and sometimes he would visit

@@southernbridalJenn’s ex (not bio dad) only became “friends” with SS, after he divorced Jenn, to stay in Maddie’s life. He did try to continue a relationship with them, so Maddie could still talk to his daughter. He tried to befriend SS, by playing video games online, but then they had an argument, and he stopped speaking to him. The bio dad was a one night thing and he lived in TX. He got married and Jenn rarely let Maddie speak to him, but he did pay child support.

True but I know many who would call LEvir CPS and remain anonymous!!! I know b/c I did it & within 3 days COS came to their home & ended up taken all 3 children. There is always around the system just like criminals do. Lesson for all….again you can remain anonymous!

Children Protective Services feed of the poor, they think twice about messing with a person who can afford an Attorney.

Thank you this is so true. Establishing safe boundaries for myself and my children is a lifelong struggle, especially if you are empathetic towards others. If you never learned to be tuned in correctly to signs and dangers , you must first become aware.of those dangers not minimise denie, blame self we must have explored our own selves a little before we understand the full danger. I love 5he comment some one made above, it takes a tribe to raise a fam8ly, and we all should embrace the single mom's in shared support of them raising happy adjusted children.

I agree with your comment, but, in this case, I see no room in my heart, or in the justice system, to show compassion for this man.

Thanks for you comment pattern, my children's father is a victim of r as a child and further sa, he has massive blind spots and is totally neglectful of his own children

@@pineywoodslawandcrime I'm not feeling it for him, either. But with the current evidence, I do feel some for the mother, although as I said, understanding doesn't mean I condone her actions in any way.

@@barbbeulah7139 I'm sorry to hear that. I hope he has/will find a good trauma therapist, and that he's a good father in other ways.

I’m so sorry. I absolutely cannot understand women like this. My kids dad and I have been separated for almost 8 years now and I promised them that I would NEVER bring a man into their home while they lived here. At this point, I don’t care if I ever do. I enjoy my time with them and I enjoy my time alone when they’re with dad. There is NOTHING more important than making sure they feel happy and safe and at peace in their own home.

I’m so sorry you dealt with such abuse. Your Mom was wrong for that. Prayers for peace. 🙏

We’re so sorry this happened to you and your daughter

I’m so sorry. 🙏

Thanks for sharing!!