i agree with you - but at the point of discovery, which lets say was when BW made the allegations about ScW to her mum, SW had a choice to protect all the children. Right at that moment. So why would she have had the fear then, at that point - so much so that she chose to take the steps she did? According to the info we have had, there was nothing before that point that showed that SW had been unwilling or unable to protect the children. She had presented herself to the world as a caring mother. She could have acted immediately out of caution, even if she hadn’t believed her daughter.
She could have sent ScW to his parents house, not BW.
From the very first minute we've seen how she is not a sranger to the practices of manipulation and deception.
She was told by Bee that sexual abuse had been going on for seven years and her response was that Bee was sleepwalking. For seven years!
She told her it couldn't be true because she wouldn't be able to handle being in the same house as Scott. How is that in any way relevant to the truth of it? What that shows is that she had no intention of getting him out of the house if it were true.
She manipulated the grandparents.
She started plotting, before Bee was missing, taking over Bee's social media.
She pretended she was Bee in messages.
She lied to her boyfriend, deceiving him that texts were from Bee that day, and didn't tell him until after she'd been arrested and was forced to admit it to police, no doubt when they confronted her with the evidence of Bee's phone pings.
She lied to her best friend the next day, pretending to receive a text from Bee and saying that Bee had her phone and had been in contact with Sarah on it the night she was at the grandparents.
I could go on, every single thing she did over that week and the next was a lie, including lying to police. She lied after her arrest until she had to change her story to explain the evidence police had.
Not finding any truth in her statements or actions, I have no reason to believe her when she said to Bee that she thought her children would be taken away. It looks like more manipulation to me, especially when in the same breath she said she couldn't continue to live in the same house as him, as if that would be a real option and he wouldn't be removed!
I think her real dilemma was it upset Sarah's apple cart. She had Scott there to be full-time daddy to the children, a boyfriend who perhaps wasn't expecting to be thrust into parenthood through an affair, and perhaps didn't care too much for living with Sarah's brood of ten, and if Scott went Sarah would actually have to be her children's full-time carer. Sarah very well knew she could manipulate social services into whatever outcome she wanted as regards not knowing about the abuse. I think her fear was a big lifestyle change, perhaps losing her boyfriend's interest in her AND her child-carer Scott.
I also think that for Sarah to have taken this attitude to Bee, calling her a liar and letting her go crying, knowing (imo) without doubt the allegations were true, and making her sit in Scott's car for the journey to his parents, she couldn't have had love for her to start with. Getting confirmation the murder had been committed (imo) from Scott, and sitting down to the business of the messages while not having any emotional collapse, hardens that belief. I think it is that moment which crystallises everything, and her true personality was laid bare for us - perhaps she is also practiced in the art of mimicking real love, and I won't get into diagnoses because that's not my bag. We can't assume this was a change in her from being a loving mother to a mother that would plot to murder her own daughter.
MOO
