Comments

You must log in or register to comment.

Wear-Fluid t1_j47ay6k wrote

Image being harassed online & then find out it was your own mother. What a failure of a parent & human being.

273

wart_on_satans_dick t1_j47dds6 wrote

Some parents think that because it's their child they can do literally whatever they want.

132

Wear-Fluid t1_j47en8g wrote

Can confirm. My mother was one of those people. 🙄

86

wart_on_satans_dick t1_j47h49x wrote

Mine too unfortunately. They would also take any sort of slight or perceived slight and punish me for it. Generally with a belt.

44

Fantastic_Nebula_835 t1_j47wa3b wrote

Yeah, my dad was a bare knuckle guy. 95% of the time my older sister took the hits to protect us. I took the other 5%. It was tied to his binge drinking and what we suspect was bipolar disorder. Ironically, he didn't believe in corporal punishment. It was just random. My mom was diagnosed with severe borderline personality disorder and malignant narcissism. They were exhausting to take care of growing up. I was lucky, though. Over the years, my friends, their families, and many of my teachers became my family.

46

wart_on_satans_dick t1_j483faz wrote

I'm sorry to hear that. Ironically as well, I believe my dad felt the same way about corporal punishment. He didn't binge drink thankfully, he was married to his work. I have never once heard him say he is sorry about even the littlest thing, I've never heard him say he's wrong about even the littlest thing, and I have never heard him say there is anything he doesn't know or understand. I am not him.

21

zoompixel t1_j47ipz5 wrote

Sad for you, fight it forever. Some people really just look like people, but they're not really. A lot can go wrong in the process of making a human being, from your long, long line of ancestors contributing their genetic material, some of it iffy, to some of the psychologically destructive processes that are sometimes involved in becoming an adult, to the raising of a child. Hope your own kids, if you have or are planning to, will receive good parenting due to your self-awareness. How all the subsystems that shape a person manage to result in the good ones we know is a miracle in itself.

12

Starlightriddlex t1_j47qe5o wrote

One of the best ways to combat generational abuse and break the cycle is to seek therapy prior to having children of your own. It's important to get an outside perspective of what normal should be. So many people fail to realize that just because you're doing a better job than your parents, it doesn't mean you're doing a "good" job.

22

supercyberlurker t1_j48fua6 wrote

Yeah, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the venn diagram of abusers and 'parents who hate therapy' is just a circle.

The abusers hate therapy because it makes them look at themselves, and the people who hate therapy often tend to become abuser because they didn't deal with their own trauma and so just perpetuate the generational abuse.

14

zoompixel t1_j4cqqt0 wrote

Can't agree more. It's hard to learn to start liking yourself, but it's an absolute prerequisite to being able to like others. The rewards are so well worth it, though.

2

BurrStreetX t1_j4858em wrote

My mom used to make me smoke meth and pimped me out to men, so can confirm.

She thought I was her property

32

mtarascio t1_j47vhgi wrote

Some think they're doing a service as they think they're teaching them about the 'real world'.

12

groveborn t1_j48fsrd wrote

There are places in the world where this is true... And it used to be everywhere.

That the parents don't own their children is a new idea.

5

Acekitty t1_j48xne9 wrote

I’d like to show this to my sister who believes all women would be great moms if given the support from society. It wouldn’t do any good though.

11

Wear-Fluid t1_j48xtwz wrote

Was never able to be myself or have any of my own opinions or thoughts. I slammed my door once and she called the police on me 😂😂

12

Acekitty t1_j48zbjy wrote

Whenever I think of my mom, I try to remind myself “at least she didn’t pimp me out for drugs.” Really she’s not a bad person, mostly we just have nothing at all in common.

10

sonia72quebec t1_j482ic4 wrote

Some people may have children but they are not parents; they lost the privilege to be call Mom/Dad.

8

USS_Hornet t1_j49ak0e wrote

Thankfully the prison sentences for the crime are so long that the daughter may be able to never see her mother again (which I imagine she would like).

6

PEVEI t1_j47b11t wrote

But… why? Why do this to your own kid? The article doesn’t seem to describe a motive, just a lot of crazy.

111

supercyberlurker t1_j47dzra wrote

If you study the nature of abusive parents, it's extremely clear to see the why.

It basically comes down to power and control, usually because the parent themselves is still emotionally immature, likely from the trauma and abuse they suffered.. that they are now passing down generationally.

116

USS_Hornet t1_j49b1a7 wrote

She was the girls basketball coach at her daughters school. She probably was a "mean girl" when she was in school and since she worked there, she still thought she was a teen and could be a mean girl.

29

stardustjustlikeyou t1_j47bq4h wrote

She reported herself to the police too lol

25

BirdInFlight301 t1_j47k2gp wrote

Didn't she confess after they showed up at her home with warrants for her computer and phone?

23

Available-Camera8691 t1_j47mo38 wrote

She went to the school and complained, but probably didn't expect them to get the police involved, and ESPECIALLY didn't expect the FBI to get involved. Lol

37

Fantastic_Nebula_835 t1_j47mwx8 wrote

Does the fact she reported the catfishing--yet continued to catfish even though she knew the police were aggressively investigating--mean she wanted to get caught? Her poor daughter. It would've been hard enough if it was just someone she knew in passing.

17

WebbityWebbs t1_j47qfm4 wrote

This isn’t rational behavior. Don’t look for logic.

29

PuellaBona t1_j4a8bur wrote

She had apps masking her location. She thought she was too smart to get caught. Stay stupid criminals.

12

Ok_Store_1983 t1_j47tzsp wrote

She harrassed the daughter's boyfriend too. Makes me wonder if she didn't like the kid or want her daughter dating him and if they were getting harrassed the two would break up. As someone else pointed out, maybe she is just an abusive asshole and enjoys seeing her children in emotional distress.

22

SofieTerleska t1_j48wn7b wrote

A couple of things in the article make it sound like she was trying to pretend that she was one of their classmates -- the official's remark about how it gradually became clear that the messages weren't being sent by a child despite the references makes it sound like the mom was either pretending to be anonymous classmate or impersonating someone. As for why, who knows. Probably trying to break her daughter and the boyfriend up but for what reason there's no way to know.

17

ennuiFighter t1_j47hppu wrote

Probably she was secretly bullying to 'prove' to her child that something she directly bullies is justified, because look that other person also says xyz...

Seems incredibly exhausting though.

13

Tall_Paul88 t1_j48l91c wrote

She and the parent of the other child were the ones who originally notified the school about this! Is this a new form of Munchausens by proxy?

38

Vericatov t1_j4c3oi4 wrote

My thought on this is since she was also harassing her daughter’s boyfriend, the boyfriend’s parents got involved and she was forced to play along hoping she wouldn’t get caught. Of course she’s an idiot and the search warrants of the social media accounts and phone records lead to her.

3

__Call_Me_Maeby__ t1_j47y9gp wrote

The article doesn't mention if this “mom” lost custody of her daughter, but for that child's sake, I hope she did.

13

BadMeetsEvil24 t1_j4bnumx wrote

Not only is she a moron in general for doing this, but not realizing the cops can easily subpoena records and track IPs with some easily filed paperwork.

Of course realizing this meant she'd have to have brain cells to begin with.

I like that they said they realized the messages weren't being sent from a teenager. Insert How Do You Do Fellow Kids meme lmao.

6

EerdayLit t1_j49s7mp wrote

There's literally a TLC show called catfished my daughter.

2