I understand and I agree. This is an uneducated person who made horrific mistakes in the raising of her child and has no clue how to deal with the aftermath of her decisions, or lack thereof, or how to deal with the public outrage over those decisions. JB's demeanor on the show does not make me think she had something to do with her daughter's murder. But, my exposure to other horrible cases, the general reek of child neglect and endangerment emanating from Neveah's home environment as evidenced by the statements from her parents, the fact that JB knowingly exposed her precious child to a predator, all of that coupled with her lack of emotion causes me to not rule out that she may have had something to do with this crime, or perhaps, crimes that precipitated it.
But, I can easily see how it's simply a case like many others in which a person who should not have had a child carelessly had one anyhow, taking parenthood for granted, who failed to, or was unable to do what she needed to to learn how to parent, once her baby was born, and then sacrificed the well-being and safety of her child in exchange for her own romance or socialization. It happens all the time, as we know. But, something needs to be done.
I'm sick of seeing children born into a situation in which they never stood a chance, due to the circumstances of their parents. Education about parenting and birth control, serious intervention including parenting coaches and systematic welfare checks for families that become involved in the system due to neglect, abuse, criminal activity, poverty or drug/alcohol abuse,and last of all, prosecution of parents who endanger their children by exposing them to predators, either knowingly or negligently, needs to become a priority in this country. I'd love it if my taxes went to those kind of things, instead of to badly run banks and auto companies. Such policies are bound to prevent at least some cases like little Neveah's.
