Letecia posted that video herself as an explanation for why Gannon was upset. She claimed she 'didn't know' the phone was recording at that time. It's so disturbing because you can't even see Gannon in the video.
I couldn't listen to it after the first time, it was just too upsetting. In fact I've managed to hold it together until the PC yesterday when Landen spoke about Gannon and getting justice for him. Then Albert's statement... no parents should ever have to go through this much pain.
And to think of that vile woman's behavior and actions throughout this whole time. She is one sick individual and I hope LE can continue their work and find Gannon and that she is punished to the full extent of the law.
Imo
Yes! That was the other thing I forgot to mention in my post. The fact that you can’t see him actually makes it more obvious to me that she doesn’t want him seen on video. Ok, so she says that she accidentally recorded it. Now, this is iPhone specific since that is what I have, but if she has an iPhone, when you click on the camera the default camera setting that comes up is picture, not video. There are three other options to the right and three to the left (video, slow motion, portrait, etc). You have to swipe left once to get it to video mode. I’ll freely admit that I’ve opened my camera on accident and hit the big red button. However, anytime I’ve done that I either have 100 burst photos of the same image because it stayed on the default camera option, or it went to the end option all the way to the left or right because...well, you’re accidentally swiping and it takes longer than a millisecond to swipe just once if you have the phone in your hand. But she sure made sure to get his sister in the frame before walking into the other room. I’m not sure if it ok to mention the sister in the video (I think that’s who it is in the beginning?) but it kind of looks to me like she’s hiding from something, maybe something that made her upset like her brother getting hurt.
Also, she doesn’t sound like a mom who is actually trying to get to the bottom of something when asking if he’s sure he didn’t do it on purpose. I can’t speak for other moms, but I think most moms (especially of kids that age) have a pretty good idea of when their kids are lying to them. I have different reactions when trying to get my kids to tell me the truth about something when they’ve lied. One, I’m already angry about whatever it is they’ve done and I’m not so nice (very firm in fact) when asking if “they’re sure” they didn’t do something and somewhere in that conversation I’ll tell them to stop lying to me because I already know they did it. I’m not proud of that reaction and I know it’s not the mature thing to do, but it’s sometimes what happens when what they’ve done is so bad that the fact they’ve done it is unacceptable as to the kind of person they should be (like when my son punched his friend in the face once). That is not a “candle damage to carpet” reaction.
The most common technique I use is to try to disarm them. Talk in a calm voice, ask if they’re sure it didn’t happen, sometimes tell them they won’t get in trouble if they tell me the truth (when what they’ve done truly won’t get them in trouble because I don’t feel that every offense a kid commits is something worthy of punishment), or gently remind them they will be in more trouble if they lie to me and I find out than they would be for what they’ve done. Her response is not the response of a mother just trying to get to the bottom of something. As many of you mentioned, her response is gaslighting him. She’s trying to get him to believe she really thought he did it and was lying to her, so he would feel that whatever she did to him was justified.
Again, the above is JMO as a mother who would never murder her child.