http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/parents-sky-metalwala-denied-custody-4-year-old-da/nFZYh/
A four year old who hasn't seen him since December says "he's mean". How much of that is based on actual actions on the father vs. Mom's ranting and manipulation shaping her perceptions.
I didn't think it was possible to be disgusted more with Julia. Yet, it keeps piling on.
Yeah, and CPS is not going to want to admit they may have been wrong in their recommendations to the court last year in connection with the custody case, so they will try to stick with the daddy is abusive theory for awhile.
Casey Anthony did that to her myspace. IIRC, she erased dozens of Caylee's pictures on the day she 'went missing.'
It still bothers me that that was never brought up at trial.
That's not true. Anyone with a lawyer is unlikely to take one, and she had advice from her divorce attorney early on.
I will NEVER ever take one again, after having failed one miserably. I was just volunteering to take a poly to help train mall security, I worked in the mall and they were looking for volunteers to help train the polygraphers. I went down in absolute flames, although I told the complete truth on every question and wasn't stressed at all.
If I am accused of a crime later in life, you can bet I will NOT submit to a poly.
They're not reliable. At all. They're like playing a ouiji board.
Uh so no. I'm not going to submit to sitting there while you guys play with a ouiji board to determine whether I'm guilty.
I am an attorney myself. I also feel guilty even when I;m innocent. So I'd probably be like you and fail miserably.
Yet, if my kid went missing I would be on LE's doorstep demanding to take one. LDT's are not evidence. They cannot be used as such in most jurisdictions. They are a tool to help LE narrow things down, shift their focus, etc. I would want to take every step possible to try to clear myself so they could focus on finding my baby. At least, if I was innocent I would.
Also, I think when it is something as serious as a missing child, such a test would be vastly different to take than in another situation. Your responses would be forceful and sincere as you desperately try to help LE find your kid. IMO.
I know everyone is aghast that she left her preschoolers home alone, but I have to add this. In my preschool playgroup there was this french woman married to a german guy, very upper middle class, their home was worth like, 450K.
Both very well educated. Both had masters degrees plus.
They would leave their kids alone, INEXPLICABLY. She'd go grocery shopping for an hour, etc., and she thought nothing of it. As a group of playgroup moms, we told her she would be charged with a jailable offense if she was caught doing this in the US, and it's DANGEROUS.
Just throwing that out. Some cultures think nothing of leaving their preschoolers without any supervision, oddly enough. : (
In this case I don't think it's "cultures". I know French people, German people and dozens from other European and Asian countries and they would be just as aghast as we are. This is a problem with certain people who lack common sense or protective instinct, IMO.
Ok. Well, you might want to read this article, about a couple who left their child in a stroller outside a restaurant while they ate in the US, as was a common Danish practice. They were a bit surprised that the US frowns on that behavior.
Cultural, it seems. Cultural, to supervise your kids.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/14/n...ide-restaurant-is-returned-to-her-mother.html
My mom is from Holland, my dad from Spain. We have many French, German and other friends from Europe. It is decidedly NOT a cultural practice in Europe to leave children alone, unattended.
In Northern Europe, people used to (and sometimes still do, but not as much) leave babies in a pram outside a shop on a warm day. You would see sometimes six prams with babies outside. They did this because warm, sunny weather is hard to come by in the region and they believe it is healthful for kids.
But life is/was different there. People all watch out for each other's children and people didn't go around snatching kids from public places often, especially not babies. Moms would go into small shops (not massive markets like Target or Walmart or Stater Brothers or whatever), and leave the small baby right outside the door, where they could peer out at him or her now and then, while they shopped and visited. It was, unbelievably to us, safe.
But leave a toddler who can walk away alone outside or in the house unattended, drop them off at a park alone? Never. And now with the heavy influx of immigrants from other cultures and the increase in crime, the pram practice has mostly faded.
I do not believe if she murdered Sky that it was a psychotic break. This is just my opinion but psychotic women are prone to victimise more than one child (e.g. Andrea Yates) OR one child was murdered while the others were spared because they were not in the home at the time (e.g. Dena Schlosser). Typically psychotic women also are more likely to confess immediately after the murder. I cannot recall a psychotic filicide that involved a convoluted, if seemingly haphazard, cover up. (Doesn't mean there isn't one but I can't think of it.)
