BBM
All I know is if 6 years of no contact, no interest and no support of your child is caring, I'd hate to know what uncaring is.
If sitting on the porch, drinking with your neighbor buddy and God knows who else, to possibly black out drunk status, while your children are inside and you haven't checked on your sick baby girl since 6:40 p.m. is caring any more than that I'll kiss your feet.
I, personally, feel that JI denied and/or bullied her into submission about seeing
their son.
I'd be more understanding if this desire to want to reconnect with her child wasn't using this 'event' (a missing child) as a means to do it when that desire apparently wasn't there 6 years prior.
This 'event' may just have given RR enough backbone to know with the world watching she might just get to be able to see her son now. Just because it's been stated she hadn't seen her son doesn't mean to me she didn't want to.
My take is if we're ok with casting suspicion on DB on her abilities as a mother based on her actions of that night, I don't see why the same can't be done for RR, based on her actions for the past 6 years.
RR didn't sit on the porch to black out drunk and her child come up missing either. If you think RR is a bad mom I can't for the life of me understand why you'd think DB is any better?? Just being present in a child's life doesn't make you a saint, as witnessed by DB's actions.
For all any of us know, JI told the mother he wouldn't pursue further action or push her for any child support if she just went away. We don't know what he was holding over her head.
Exactly!
Also, JI's lawyers has said that she had no contact in 6 years, except a chance encounter when they were out and about, plus that she had not paid any child support. (Paraphrased)
I don't trust what JI's attorneys say or do. It's obvious to me that they don't care about these kids as I watch them not urge but defend their client's not participating with LE in the way LE needs them to. Baby Lisa depends on these two and they have let her down. Doesn't sit well as being good parents or good attorneys to me.
Sometimes people make it very difficult to collect on court ordered child support. I have a friend whose wife never received one dime from her ex. Her ex was a drug addict who sponged off of family and never held down a real above board job. She never bothered to go after him because it was a waste of time. Her son is now 23 yrs old.
I collected but it was very random and not the court ordered amount but on the rare occasion he would pay it was a sum he determined was fair, and was much less than any court would have ordered. I didn't need his money and I didn't care to try to collect on it.
If JI was preventing visitation, which would of been in violation of a court order, then it was on her to find a way to make that happen if she wanted badly enough to see her son.
Always RR's fault, right? I can only imagine how he made it hell for her to see her son and while I would have the backbone, stamina and family and friends support to do just that we don't know that RR had that, or that she wasn't manipulated in some way by JI.
I still suspect she was deported. I don't know why Steve Young would have said that if it wasn't true. Those records are not public, so we would have no way of knowing. But LE/FBI would have access and know that. I wish I could find where he said that. :banghead: Does anybody else remember that at all, or am I losing my mind? :crazy:
I thought I heard this early on, too, but have no idea where I heard it. The only forums I go to is this one and I've listened and read many news reports so I don't know if I heard it here or where!
My thoughts have always been that JI manipulated and intimidated RR in her quest to see her son and have a relationship with him. Maybe he thought he was doing it for his son's own good. It's clear to see, for me anyway, that the court left it up to JI to okay the request or not. Ignorant move for any court to leave it to the other parent. Many times there is to much disrespect and contempt for the other for that to ever work well for the benefit of the child or the other parent.
MOO