It sickens me, too, almost to the point of actual physical illness, and I understand your anger -- certainly toward SS and to some extent toward JS. At best, her maternal instincts and taste in men were terrible; at worst, she knowingly perpetuated the abuse and murder of her daughter. Right now, though, she has been charged with nothing; having bad taste in men is not criminal (thankfully for me, LOL). We simply DO NOT KNOW enough to say JS was aware of what was going on, even if we can all agree that she probably should've been. But again, being a clueless parent, while obviously bad, is not criminal. As many people here have said, the guilt and shame of being sexually abused/assaulted is incomprehensible if you haven't experienced it. I was 22 when I was raped, not a child, and I still didn't tell anyone (I told my friends first; I didn't tell my mom until 20 years later) for a very long time because I was so ashamed and sure I'd caused it in some way and because I still cared deeply about the man who hurt me, even though his actions were awful. A child, old enough to know this isn't right but not old enough to know what to do about it, maybe threatened by the abuser, maybe even loyal toward him, is going to be overwhelmed with conflicting and terrifying emotions. Some kids tell right away, some kids tell years later, and some kids don't tell even as adults. IF MS told her mom and her mom didn't believe her or believed her but did nothing or -- God forbid -- participated in some way, THEN yes, condemn her, lock her up, throw away the key. But until that's known and/or JS is charged with something, I'm going to reserve the majority of my anger for SS and try to find some compassion for JS as a grieving mother, even if she was not the mother MS deserved.It is so difficult for me to find ANY compassion for JS. There is no *advertiser censored******* way that that child never, ever once said something to her mother about what he does to her. She was 8! Innocent. Unknowing. Questions had to come up in her mind. The sheer grotesque acts that she was forced to perform on him and most likely, he on she, HAD to be difficult and confusing! No way, she never said a word to anyone. It literally sickens me to my stomach that this little girl, since age 8, as far as we know, was used and abused and this was her life. Then at 13 years old, she declares she wants to “live in the woods”. She was growing up by then and better
understood exactly how wrong and unnatural the abuse she had suffered, while Mother just looked away, really was. I believe she told them both that she was going to expose them or something to that affect that made them both decide that something had to be done with her. Just my opinion and I wish I was wrong.