I hate to say this but I believe it also. I have said since early on in this case that she profiled the perfect sexual abuse victim. I suspected GA as a child and LA later.
I know this is hard to imagine for a normal person, but I worked with a young woman who had been sexually abused by her father as a young child until she was 13 when she threatened to tell and after that her older brother, whom she was very afraid of physically.
Reading that home self defense, made me think back to when the young woman felt she was on the verge of being assualted again by her father at age 19 and she had actually planned on how to kill him if he came into her room. She had a very good plan actually. She had become so traumatized over the years that killing someone was not a fantasy but a full plan.
Fortunately, she got the help she needed to get out of the house, but young women like that feel trapped by their situation and only have tunnel vision for a way out. The mother had turned a blind eye to it all the years, even after being told when the child was 9 what was happening. She never felt anyone could help her, so she felt hopeless.
She later married and had a female child, but would never allow her daughter around her father or her brother. Her father and mother divorced and he married a younger woman with 3 daughters. She has always felt like he married the woman because of the young daughters, but could not do anything about it because the police told her the statutes were out on her abuse.
