Daisy, you quoted my post so I wanted to make sure you understood what I was trying to convey. I wasn't saying Jahessye was telling anyone she was abused.
When I said Jahessyemay have expressed these same feelings to Hunter; I was referring to what she told Hightower at the family bbq in April of this year. She said wanted to "go home". Home to Jahessye, was not with Hunter, but with the four cousins who raised her. If all of that is true, I have a very different perspective of what may have happened. In other words, if Hunter wasn't on good terms with the cousins and she knew they were reporting her to CPS. How would Hunter respond if Jahessye was telling her with any frequency, that she did not want to live with her? I don't think I am going out on a limb with this line of thinking.
Also, the news story I quoted above states; Hunter was released to unsupervised parole. What exactly does that mean?
Ya know its funny how when I read your post I "heard" that you were saying that Jayhessye may have told them she was abused when what you were really saying was that Jayhessye may have specifically told them that she wanted to go home.
Not funny as in "ha ha", but funny as in "that's an interesting point" because it illustrates a couple of things that we've been talking about. Not only does it apply to the specific point of your post, but I think it also applies to the issue of whether LE means Jayhessye never left the apartment alive or do they mean she didn't get lost when they say she didn't wander away? I think its interesting too because it also could be used to look at the whole issue regarding Jayhessye not receiving national attention (is it because of racism, is it because there are just so many missing children in America, or is it a combination of both?).
Anyway, you are right, Jayhessye could have said that she wanted to go home. Jayhessye may not have said anything, I think all of us can probably understand the fear Hightower and Vance must feel about allowing those children to be in the care of a woman convicted of child abuse. To be honest it wouldn't upset me one bit if they saw possible signs of abuse (as opposed to Jayhessye telling them) or just made the whole situation up to get CPS involved.
The same principle may have played a part in the grandmother's frustration that JH's other children were placed in foster care instead of with her or other family members. Since JH had previously accused her own mother of abusing her as a child, did she feel CPS was looking at her as abusing her grandchildren or even that they thought she or other family members were responsible for Jayhessye's disappearance?
So yes, it is possible that if Jayhessye did say she wanted to return to Hightower's and/or Vance's and/or her grandmother's care, JH may have heard Jayhessye/her relatives saying she was abusing her children again. And JH's resulting reaction could give us clues as to what happened to Jayhessye.
Did JH feel betrayed by her daughter or family? Could she have taken that anger out on Jayhessye or her other children? If in fact Jayhessye was killed accidentally could JH have feared that because of her history she would be accused of murdering her Jayhessye or abusing her and her siblings which would result in,
at the very least, her children being taken away from her?
We don't know and neither could JH know for sure who made the report to CPS. I don't think parents are ever given that information, so JH may have assumed one of her children told an adult they were being abused and/or it was one of her relatives. That policy is in place I believe to protect the child from violent repercussions if the abuser does take their anger regarding the report out on them.
And thanks for pointing out the "unsupervised parole". I don't know what that is, what I do know is it is one more instance where I am left scratching my head thinking WTF like I do with so many of these cases. I know that there is a difference between molesting a child and physically abusing them. Both crimes do involve severely damaging a child be it emotionally or physically, so I have to ask myself why people who "just" physically abuse children are treated so leniently, because its bad enough that IMO SOs barely receive a slap on the wrist.
