She could have looked for a job. Flipping burgers may not be as glamorous as ICA imagines her life should be, but it is a start. You can get a GED. You can get an entry level job. You can make some attempt to better your circumstance. Especially if you are in a house of horror and abuse with your young child.
IMO ICA knew she was gonna have to refute her fathers testimony about the abuse with her actions. Particularly if the DT does not intend to put her on the stand to sell her story. Her body language before the jury is her best shot.
I believe, as other posters have mentioned, that she anticipated when she was supposed to cry, dab her eyes, look haunted and shake her head. I think she simply jumped her cue to begin doing so. Sociopaths, which I believe her to be, tend not to actually feel appropriate emotional responses but become consumate actors in portraying the emotions they think are required. I think her body language in court is very calculated and preplanned. When she begins to clench her jaw in anger and teh more ugly less meek feelings come up, she dabs the eye, casts her eyes down, turns to the side abit shakes her head abit and lets the tears well.
MOO