Before her testimony yesterday, I thought that likely too, that she blamed herself for what had happened, because if only she had insisted that Ross keep taking those pics of Cooper arriving at daycare, she would have known. You know, those pics she asked him to take because she didn't trust him to get Cooper there, the ones he stopped taking 2 weeks beforehand, because he had already decided to kill Cooper, and was laying the groundwork.
Except- none of that is real. It's just one more example of how the State has twisted pieces of the ordinary to fit their narrative of intent. Leanna wanted those pics because she went back to work and had to separate from her infant on those days. She wanted the pics to reassure HERSELF that Cooper wasn't miserable or upset going in. And Ross took those pictures for Leanna, everyday, for almost 2 years.
It was Leanna, not Ross, who finally said, after visiting Cooper at daycare and seeing how well adjusted and happy he was the re- hey Ross. I really don't need those pics everyday, I can see for myself he's just fine.
Does she feel guilty about that? I can imagine she might have, at least initially, because IMO any normal parent in that situation could and would find ways to blame themselves and to think ...if only I had....
Nothing unusual there. And I completely disagree on the rest. I don't think she blames herself for his "shortcomings," and I sure as heck don't believe she "truly loves him."
What must you think of her to think she would "truly love him," this deeply religious, conservative woman, after finding out the extent of his sexting, that he'd been with prostitutes, and a man, that he's texted photos of his penis to a minor? And that he had exposed her to the humiliation of having all of that made public?
One not small reality is that she believes this was an accident. But, instead of being allowed to grieve her child, she had her husband arrested for murder the same night, and was herself under suspicion for months, for NO other reason other than not demonstrating the "proper" emotion within a few hours of her baby suddenly dying.
That is it, the sum total of LE's "reason" for suspecting her, and for making their suspicions PUBLIC, at the same time they were pumping out false accusations about Ross. LE robbed her not only of the opportunity to grieve her baby"s death on her own terms, but of her privacy, her dignity, and of the community's support she and Ross had before LE labelled them both baby killers with no evidence of malice whatsoever on RH"s part, and no evidence of any kind of her involvement.
How LE and the DA treated Leanna was shameful, even despicable.
Do you think Leanna has warm and fuzzy feeling for either LE or the State? Me, I suspect she feels, legitimately, a great deal of anger towards them. She knows because she experienced it for herself what it feels like to be unfairly accused. She knows Ross wouldn't have killed their baby on purpose.
IMO , as I've said before, she's not there because she still loves Ross (I saw nothing of the kind in her words or demeanor), she's there because she knows what's happening to him is wrong, and no matter what she feels about all the rest, she's not going to stand by and allow Ross get railroaded into prison for life for something he didn't do . Jmo.
