Some have sort of ruled it out because of the age difference, though if it was the other way around and the male inmate was almost 20 years older than the female prison employee, the subject of age wouldn't even have come up.
There was a post that called her plain. She doesn't look plain to me in either of the photos I've seen so far.
I thought she was quite attractive and cute in a natural way.
I meant to post that before, though I knew it wouldn't go down well, and most likely won't now.
It's just my opinion.
Also re the age thing, being a woman who is 56 doesn't rule out still looking attractive to anyone, even a younger man.
IMO, neither of them are attractive. Just my own opinion, obviously. I agree absolutely that people have their own taste and it's
possible CW could have truly fallen for VW. I don't believe it, the circumstances don't show love and caring, but it's
possible.
If, however, there was a true love match between the two (again, I stipulate that I 100% don't believe so), then they both handled it in the exact wrong way.
If, for some desperate reason, Vicky fell in love with him, then you DON'T break him out of jail. You retire correctly, you become a civilian, you visit him in jail or prison, you attend his court hearings, you try to get conjugal rights. You vow you'll wait forever. You DON'T do the worst professional thing you can do, the one that upends the meaning of your entire career. You DON'T collude in a scenario that causes your "boyfriend" to go on the run. Yes, he's escaped for now, but he is in for so much worse when he's caught. He'll get into a shootout with the police, or if recaptured he will lose whatever prison privileges he had.
And
if CW had any
actual love for her, you DON'T force a situation in which your "girlfriend" has to forfeit everything she's ever had to become a fugitive with you. You DON'T want someone you "love" to forfeit her mother, her job, her home, her reputation and eventually her freedom, just to be with you.
Even if this weren't a case of warden/prisoner, who knows how long they would last if they were a regular everyday couple. Of course a man could love an older woman, but if he wanted to have a family someday, she's beyond childbearing years. IMO there are many factors against them having a long-lasting relationship, BEYOND the fact that he's a vicious murderer, and that she bore responsibility for keeping him away from the civilian world.
I know it's not the same, because this involves a child, but I have the sick feeling I've had just once in my professional career. A fellow teacher did actually fall "in love" with a 15-year old student. We didn't know a thing about it. When he was of age, they married. She was never arrested, to my knowledge. She left the school after the kid graduated, went to another school, and no one seems to have known about this gut- wrenching situation until they married and we found out about it all.
The wrench we all felt was unbelievable. Like VW, something like this is the epitome of what we DO NOT DO, the exact opposite of our life's mission.
With the huge exception that CW is not a minor, I feel that same sense of upheaval. This is a betrayal of an entire life's profession. The thing that does not happen. The thing we do not do.
JMO
