@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:Is this a FEDERAL crime??
Could be - having a child abuser sitting on the bench sentencing other child abusers.
That's like putting a shark in charge of the swimming pool.
Quote:What is the jurisdictional predicate ?
I don't know David.
I wasn't aware I was saying it was a federal crime. Did what I posted seem to indicate that? If it did, that wasn't my point.
And for the record, I did watch the interview and that Mom is an abomination - sitting there saying 'I left him when she was six months old but he shamed me into coming back'. Was she not ashamed to stand there in her new role of 'co-dependent' and watch her husband beat her daughter?
Which action should she be more ashamed of - taking her daughter out of that or bringing her back in and subjecting her to it for 19 more years?
I don't know, I'd have understood it alot more if she'd said, 'I don't know what I was thinking or doing and I'm ashamed of MYSELF - but thank God my daughter lived through it and has forgiven me' .
At least then we'd see her having taken responsibility for her behavior instead of trying to explain her participation away by blaming her husband's addiction which she mentioned only cryptically - probably so she couldn't get sued.
They're both just trying to cover their butts. Mom too.
And as I said, I almost think she's the sicker and scarier of the two. You could hear it in her voice on that tape - she was calm and in control. No one was making her do and say what she did and said.
Too bad you can't get arrested for being a cruel, uncaring and controlling bitch to your children.
Those two looked and acted like tag-team sadists.
I wonder if the younger daughter has any tales to tell.