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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If she was 12 years old and she was able to hang out with this cretin then they were "allowing" her to do it. She's 12 years old. She's in grade 7 ferchrissakes. They aren't forced to just throw up their hands and say "well, she insists on dating this guy so what can we do?".
It ain't illegal to ground a 12 year old or follow her around at all times. The last time I dated a girl who was 12 I was also 12 and I sure didn't like hanging out with her parents. I would imagine it would be a little more uncomfortable for a 23 year old "man" to hang out with those parents than it was for me then.
I don't mean to be too callous and say "bad parenting" is solely to blame but I don't think "good parenting" is part of the deal either.
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There's an old saying that you can't keep track of your kid every minute of every day. From what I understood, they grounded her, they forbid her from seeing him, but her and his friends considered to facilitate them seeing each other (nice friends btw). The most terrifying decision for any parent is the fear of driving thier child away, and I'm sure that fear motivated them.
We can all say, they should have called the police and had this creep charged as a sex offender, but thier daughter probably would have run away. They could have sent the father to warn the kid off, but again when you force an emotional and probably horny sexually active girl to choose, whats she going to choose.
No parent ever thinks, no matter how bad things are that thier child is going to murder them, thats what makes this whole case so gruesome, that they planned it and executed it, then went off and had sex after the killings is double gruesome.
We don't have enough info to blame the parents, but its tough to condemn them.
A few days ago we saw a similar crime in Chris Benoit killing off his family, and we've spent days debating it, and why something like this can happen. In Benoit's case, it was depression or mental illness, or a long term abuse of multiple drugs. What caused these two to kill her parents.
She's quite the little sociopath so far.