Well to be fair, we don't know that some of these children were not buried by their parent/guardian and instead were "tossed out." Although yes, many unfortunately are. But look at JonBenet & how her parents staged her body--sickening, all to avoid prosecution, left in a hidden room in the cellar of her own home.
How do people get away with clamming up when there's been a crime? It's called the Constitution of the U.S. and the Bill of Rights. The right not to self-incriminate.
But let's say for a moment what happened to Isa was an accident and the family member who did this did not intend to kill her. They're still looking at manslaughter or negligent homicide at a minimum, with maybe 10 years in prison. What are their options at this point (other than turning themselves in)?
Fake an abduction is the next option I suppose. They still have to deal with a body though. They can't bring the life back no matter how much wishing and praying they do and they have to do something...
This is not an uncommon scenario. We know children sometimes die through the actions of a parent or guardian even if the death was not intended. And no, it's not okay, but it does happen. It makes it worse, this staging. Imagine instead if a parent just confessed and didn't try and create an alternative crime scene. "Yes, I snapped and hit my child and caused injuries that resulted in her death. I didn't mean it. I'm confessing." The question is, could you forgive them?
Respectfully, my forgiveness is of zero importance.
If a parent snaps and strikes a child hard enough to kill them, then I can say I haven't got much sympathy for their plight. All of my sympathy lies with that poor child.
I will honestly say I have seen black spots in front of my eyes, I have walked into my bedroom and shut the door and lain on the floor pitching my own tantrum out of my anger and frustration over my child.
I have clenched my fists and screeched and felt as though I wanted to just explode, but ultimately, this is a CHILD. MY child. A person much smaller than me, who depends on me for safety. A person without adult reasoning who expresses their fears through tantrums or "bad" behavior. A person who draws on newly painted walls with marker not because they want to ruin them, but because they wanted to help make them prettier.
But even if a parent loses all reason and does the unimaginable, how could they further desecrate the body that once contained a precious life by denying it a decent burial?
I know some people are not religious or their beliefs do not place a value on a body of the deceased, but to fake a disappearance and hide a child's body is just evil and it says, IMO, that to dishonor their child's memory is fine as long as they can get away with it.
To me, IMHO, when there is a cover up, there is no remorse, only more selfishness.
