klmno, I am so sorry about your mom. I hope that she can keep her koi away from you and difficult child. What would happen if she sends letters or whatever that are way out there and you got a restraining order? Just a thought that is on my mind today.
I think the parents may be rationalizing supporting Casey because they have already lost one loved one and no matter how awful Casey is she is still their daughter and they don't want to lose her. I also think that they got her out of trouble so many times in the past that it is habit. Throwing them, esp dad, under the bus because they didn't save her by falling on their swords and saying they did it is a true difficult child action, isn't it?
I still think that the entire thing was done first to get out of trouble (sedate the kid and hide her in the car so mom won't know I am partying and no one will think I am a bad mommy) and then to amp up the media so she can get the most bucks from the circus - and so those around her can also get big bucks.
I refute ANY suggestion that she was a good mother. Good mothers do NOT party and drink while their toddlers are missing. They do NOT enter sexy contests at bars when their child is missing or newly dead from an accident. Sorry. You will NEVER convince me that she is a good mother. Her peers may think she was because she acted loving around them, but that is akin to having a show puppy - you ooh and coo when you have an audience and crate it when you don't. Or you have someone else care for it.
Zanny the Nanny was probably used for a while to pacify the parents while Casey laughed at them for not realizing that the zanny she meant was xanax. She likely happened to see or hear of the zenaida woman from her friend or when she was with her friend, and then used it to try to throw off suspicion and blame someone else. There isn't a way to prove taht she gave the baby xanax, but this is just a classic difficult child thing and what many difficult children would do if given the idea somehow.
I think the parents may be rationalizing supporting Casey because they have already lost one loved one and no matter how awful Casey is she is still their daughter and they don't want to lose her. I also think that they got her out of trouble so many times in the past that it is habit. Throwing them, esp dad, under the bus because they didn't save her by falling on their swords and saying they did it is a true difficult child action, isn't it?
I still think that the entire thing was done first to get out of trouble (sedate the kid and hide her in the car so mom won't know I am partying and no one will think I am a bad mommy) and then to amp up the media so she can get the most bucks from the circus - and so those around her can also get big bucks.
I refute ANY suggestion that she was a good mother. Good mothers do NOT party and drink while their toddlers are missing. They do NOT enter sexy contests at bars when their child is missing or newly dead from an accident. Sorry. You will NEVER convince me that she is a good mother. Her peers may think she was because she acted loving around them, but that is akin to having a show puppy - you ooh and coo when you have an audience and crate it when you don't. Or you have someone else care for it.
Zanny the Nanny was probably used for a while to pacify the parents while Casey laughed at them for not realizing that the zanny she meant was xanax. She likely happened to see or hear of the zenaida woman from her friend or when she was with her friend, and then used it to try to throw off suspicion and blame someone else. There isn't a way to prove taht she gave the baby xanax, but this is just a classic difficult child thing and what many difficult children would do if given the idea somehow.