Thank you miss krissy! I got the heebee jeebees when I read the part saying something happened to her at age 7, and then saw a post about Nancy Grace saying the babysitter said something happened when JA was seven!
I don't know when that came out on the NG show or if that was generally known before, but the whole description of Jodi was so interesting!
PINSKY: Baseball bat. And she was how old at the time?
HAWKINS: She was probably five, six years old at the time.
PINSKY: OK. Just a reminder, we can`t independently confirm nor refute what is being said here, but let me ask another couple quick questions about this. Did Jodi, the child, then apologize or seem contrite?
HAWKINS: No, absolutely not. In fact, when I asked her, Jodi, did you hit your brother, she`s like, no, I don`t know why he`s crying.
PINSKY: Wendy Walsh, warning sign or do you think this is just child play, so to speak?
WENDY WALSH, PH.D., PSYCHOLOGIST: I think this is very developmentally normal. I think that it`s really hard to judge somebody`s personality type, first of all, by -- at the age of 5 years old because they`re all dimpled, curly lunatics at that age. They -- and I think even looking at a slice of it is very hard.
Although I would say that if there`s violence and aggression, I`m wondering, was it something that was a learned behavior? Was -- do you happen to know --
PINSKY: Right.
WALSH: -- whether there was some corporal punishment happening in the house?
PINSKY: Beth?
HAWKINS: Well, you know, I can`t say that I ever saw any type of corporal punishment between the parents and Jodi and/or Carl. What I can say is that just about every occasion that I babysat, I pretty much couldn`t leave the two of them alone. I mean, if they were in the living room and I was in the kitchen or vice versa or they were in their bedroom, there was always an incident.
I mean, there were times I felt like I couldn`t even go to the bathroom without some sort of incident going on.
PINSKY: Lisa, go ahead.
BLOOM: So I have a question. I think it is pretty normal for kids to bang each other over the head, brothers and sisters. But what about afterwards? Did she show any empathy? Did she feel bad that her little brother had been hurt by her?
HAWKINS: You know, I don`t think so. I was a young woman at the time, I was 14, 15 years old when I babysat for them, and, you know, just growing up and I was (INAUDIBLE) them to my family, and when incidents like that happened in our group, there was always some kind of, you know, sort of regret or something, and I never really saw that in her.
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