I appreciate this discussion though everyone might not always be agreeable. Hugs. I like to hear and discuss all sides in the respectful manner that we are able to do so.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think it's really helpful to 'hear' the reasoning behind people's thoughts rather than just "I think X is guilty/not guilty".
I get into these discussions of what do certain words or actions mean. But to be honest I'm more interested in what happened to Lucas than where JH is living now or all of that stuff? That has nothing to do with what you or anyone else has said, I'm not complaining about the discussion happening here...it's being put in msm and NG etc so of course people are going to talk about it and judge what he says on those topics, but in my own mind it's extraneous to what happened to Lucas. I feel empathy for JH losing his son, for finding EG in that way, I hope he has support and counseling, I hope MH has a positive future filled with love, but I'd rather all that was separate from what happened to Lucas and not playing out in the media? Does that make any sense?
I know that if JH had had your sense, Margarita, of awareness of child abuse and that all those bruises and all those allegations were connected, and he'd kicked out EG, then Lucas would still be here today. But I also feel he might well be 'dumb' enough to have missed it, and I think he is suffering in his mind from that, and maybe his mind is still trying to protect him from that as all of this must be a total overload for anyone's mind.
I also feel that though there's a hiatus in real information as we wait for the autopsy reports that I still want to read the thread, still post in it....I feel like we've spent all this time with Lucas on our minds, going to sleep wondering where he was, and it's hard to let go and just sit back and wait.
It's kind of like holding a vigil, being here until *all* the results are back? It's going to be very hard to say goodbye to this sweet little guy's case. Do you think that maybe we might feel subconsciously that talking about Lucas' case kind of keeps him alive in some way and that we don't want the talk to disappear in case that means we're forgetting him? But we won't forget him, will we?