Cindy has made herself an easy target over the past few years. She has behaved in a manner that is perceived as outrageous, given the circumstances. She has fed the flames of public opinion with her media comments and antics that have been well-documented. She was derided, and deservedly so.
But she was also a woman struggling to come to grips with a horror most of us cannot fathom, something no parent and grandparent should have to endure. Her world, her tidy little life, broke into a million pieces and can never be whole again. She stayed deep in denial, occasionally venturing out into the stage of anger, or dwelling in depression. Her anger and denial allowed her to semi-function, to cling to some small chance Caylee was alive somewhere. She must have thought about the case of Elizabeth Smart, the lucky one who was once again back home with her loving family, snatched from the hands of a pedophile after everyone thought she was dead. Cindy couldn't face that Caylee was dead, that KC had killed her. It was just too horrific.
But KC upped the ante when she tried to destroy George and Lee, the only family Cindy has left. She knew those were more lies in the endless web spun by KC. There had been no molestation, no discovery of a drowned Caylee. Now Cindy had to face for the first time maybe in her life the real truth about her only daughter. And it's heartbreaking to see her so emotionally raw and in such great pain.
