I was responding to someone saying that since she posts nice things and appears to be a good mom online, she must be a loving and involved mom. How do any of us know that she was? Because she posted nice things about herself does not make them true... None of us know what life in that home was actually like for Alanna. All we know about the mother was that she was apparently home and her kid was outdoors alone with nobody concerned about her AT ALL, and the child got killed. I am entitled to feel like this was neglectful on the part of the parents to let their young child outside alone and not bother checking on them.
How she FEELS about it or will feel about it in the future doesn't change my opinion on how I feel about her letting her very young child wander around alone. She may not want to read about how her actions contributed to the death of Alanna, but Alanna didn't want to die the way she did. It frustrates me that so many of these young victims are easy picks for pervs because nobody is watching them (except, of course, the perv). You can't really take the report as "character assassination" or with a grain of salt when the fact of the matter was.........her kid was outdoors alone. Given that people have said that this was common for this child to be playing alone, it's hard for me to not attribute that to the reasons she was targeted as a victim. The responsibility for the death of Alanna lies on the person who did this, but the fact that she was free for the taking with nobody looking out for her at all... well... assuming this was someone outside of the home, it wouldn't have happened if she was being properly supervised. That's my last thought on this topic. Alanna deserved better.
ALL MO.
