Tbf it could be very likely she’s in psych. It’s not a pleasant place and it’s as close to jail as I’ve ever been. However, she gets to wake up every day without being assaulted or left to decompose in a field.
I’m aghast that there is a possibility she saw her daughter’s lifeless body long before she was shown a picture by LE, and she was still able to put on an act. How does one just eat, sleep, and sit down for interviews day after day without spiraling into the abyss?
This is what I mean about 0 maternal instinct. I can’t imagine how devastating it is for Maddie’s family to learn the true details of JS’s behavior, what she allowed and enabled. I know that “family is family” but idk how anyone doesn’t disown a woman like this, truly.
Sweet Madeline. How I wish she had had the safety she needed to speak up about the abuse. More and more, I pray to the universe JS is charged and she doesn’t get to walk away from this without legal consequences. I hope that JS is convinced to take the stand. I want to see a prosecutor dismantle her facade of being too “foggy” and “trusting” with hard evidence. Orange and Osceola County are supposed to have been stepping up their violent crimes units to ensure criminals are punished with severity. While JS may not entirely fit the standard, she enabled violent, preventable, and inexcusable crimes.
SS is a soulless beast, but none of it had to happen if JS had just cared about her daughter more than keeping him close. There were countless opportunities over the years for JS to intervene and prevent what appears to be the inevitable. With him being mentally ill, abusive, predatory, and a gun owner, she had to know it could only end one way.
MOO