Tried to reply more than once with the right words.
No amount of digging will uncover the root of CAs issues. There are far too many people out in society among us just like CA, GA and LA who "float" through life's cycle. Some people figure them out immediately. Others suffer emotional and material loss when they think they "befriend" these types only to discover they were used.
These people don't have friends as we know it. They are simply acquaintances to them. Their motives are selfish and self-serving. Some murder but most just simply find "victims" destroy trust and move on. There is no love as we know it. There is no self-control in their actions. There is no personal responsibility for their actions as we know it. There is only one person who matters in this world and that is themselves.
There is no amount of mitigation, understanding or anything else one conjures up that will excuse the murder of Caylee or any other innocent child or adult. People who want to seek answers are looking for excuses to give for the behaviors exhibited by narcissistic and the many other personality disorders these people are labeled with. I am not being snary when I say this, because unless one has had personal and long term interaction, it is extremely difficult to relate the damage a personality disorder person can inflict. And you know, those who don't know, can make a false judgement about the person who has suffered at the hands of these types. The personality disorder type can be very convincing that they are right and their victim is wrong. So the victim is not only violated by the perp, but can be violated by society's ignorance of the problem.
rbbm:
I feel nothing but indifference towards ICA, CA, GA and LA.
To answer your question .... ICA could and should have done what so many of us have done. Leave. ICA was conditioned to have little if any self-esteem. ICA, just as CA has, felt entitled to take what ICA determined to be hers. We have dissected this over and over again and still the only answer I see I positively am convinced of is this:
ICA made the conscious decision to murder Caylee knowing it was wrong both morally and legally. She just didn't care at that moment. Her importance was greater than Caylee's life. Her hatred of CA was greater than Caylee's life. Do not fool oneself that Cindy didn't know this. She knew it for years for she was the creator.