Okay, I am going to get on my bandwagon here for a few minutes, please bear with me.
I do feel KC was on meth/crank/crack and/or other drugs. I posted in my previous post why I felt that was true.
Since this is a forum which reaches many people and some in KC's world, I want to talk about those drugs specifically. (if I am out of line Trish, just delete my post)
Many young people her age try those because of "peer pressure" and date pressure. They hang out at clubs where those drugs flow like water. In better circles it is usually cocaine, but I don't see KC's group having the money to support a coke habit.
Realistically, for all practical purposes, KC was homeless. She had no job, no way to support herself or Caylee, and if not for her parents she would be just like the young women I work with in homeless shelters and on the streets. These young women get hooked usually after using alcohol and many times it just takes ONE TIME for that addiction to kick in . (family history, etc) No one knows who will become addicted with that first time, but many do and women seem to be much more susceptible than men for some reason. Some believe it to be hormonal, but there is no studies to verify it.
I have met hundreds of Casey's. They are all the same. The difference in the ones I see and her is she still had enablers and she had a deep resentment toward her mother over Caylee. Most of these women for a while will trade their kids for drugs, but they eventually just give the kids to someone else in their family or the state takes them away.
Drug dealers do not like women with kids hanging around. Meth/Crack houses (and they are not just in the inner city, but many expensive areas too) will only tolerate a kid for so long. If no one wants sex with that kid in exchange for the next hit, then the women are run out of there and some then will give that child away or go to the next group of addicts to hang with.
I believe it was made VERY clear to KC that these people did not want Caylee around. Tony said it in so many words, the roommate said it as I am sure others did. That is not to imply they had anything to do with drugs, but to address the mindset of KC in all of this.
Meth/crack has a rage element. Many person/child has been killed when the addict was in a meth/coke/crack rage. They go from fine to homicidal in minutes.
If young people in these clubs could see what I see, I would like to think they would never try any of it, but unfortunately they don't think "it will ever happen to them"
A 28 year old woman who is trying to put her life back together told me she would NEVER have believed that she would have traded her kids for sex before she used crack. She said they were her entire life, and when she became addicted. something snapped which made her believe there was nothing more valuable than her next hit. The state took her kids and most likely she will never get them back, but she knows they are better off than what she put them through. That will be her curse to live with the rest of her life and may prevent her at some point from staying away from the drugs.
For the young people reading this........just remember ONE thing if nothing else rings true.
THERE ARE NO OLD PRACTICING ADDICTS.
