I posted some of this a few threads back and wanted to post it again with some updates for new information. It perhaps best summarizes my feelings about the parents in this case
Christmas came early for Michael Plumadore. He got the gift that every psychopathic pedophile in America dreams of, he got three little girls to play with.
When Tarah Souders gave her little girls to her pedophile-fathers best buddy, she did so knowing she was granting him power over her daughters. She was gifting him the authority to feed them, spank them, play and cuddle and tickle them, bounce them on his knee, and tell them a bedtime story. She knew that they would be sleeping on the floor, or in the chair their grandfather died in, rather than in their own beds at home. She knew that thirty feet away, this man, this stranger, would be undressing these little girls, stripping their clothes off, and giving them their evening baths.
One of Mikes new toys, the oldest girl, Aliahna, was already suffering from two previous incidents of sexual abuse so horrific that she had posttraumatic stress disorder as a result. Mom knew it would be potentially horrific for the girl. She did not care.
Though they were only about thirty feet away, close enough that she might easily hear them crying or perhaps screaming through the thin walls of her trailer, she did not walk over and check on them. She had given them to Mike.
The girls spent the night there on Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning mom didnt walk over to check on them. Nor did she stop by to see how they were doing Wednesday evening before bed. She didn't stop by to ask if there were any problems, or to see what they had done that day. She didnt try to discover if they were properly taken care of, if they had brushed their teeth, taken a bath, been fed. None of that.
Nor did she stop in to check on them on Thursday morning, when her daughter was murdered. Or Thursday evening, when her daughter's corpse was brutally sawed into little pieces -- quite possibly under the soul shattered eyes of the two surviving six year olds, perhaps with the admonition that: I will do this to you if you tell
Only on Friday night, after three days of not seeing the babies she dropped off thirty feet away, did Mom bother to check and see if Mike had broken any of his Christmas presents.
That's not an innocent mistake or an oversight. Adding too much sugar to your spouse's coffee is a mistake. Spooning in a few scoops of rat poison is not. Mistakes: I forgot my keys, I ran a red light, I forgot to feed my cat. Not mistakes: robbing a store, giving your little girls away.
And let us not forget the invisible man here. I am talking, of course, about dad. Did he not notice or care that his three angels were nowhere to be seen? Dad, who, if he asked where they were at all, apparently also did not care that the pedo's-buddy next door now owned his children. Who, during the eight or so hours every day between work and sleep, had no questions or concerns strong enough to drive him to walk thirty feet to check on these three little girls.
We are to believe this? It is ridiculous.
Not because it is something that no responsible parent would do, that goes without saying, but because it is behavior with no rational explanation whatsoever. They have offered no plausible reason why they gave Mike their children. None. If they said that they gave their children to Mike because the scuba diver who surfaced in their toilet told them to, it would actually make more sense then the irrational nonsense they have offered as explanation.
However, it does make sense once you abandon the notion that this was all some innocent mistake on the part of naïve parents. They were not gullible; two different men had already sexually abused their daughter, not once, but on at least two separate occasions the year before. For all we know this was not the first time. We do know that Tarahs own father, who also had helped watch the girls previously, was a child molester, as were all his buddies, most of the people who lived in the trailer park, and even other members of her own family. They werent naïve, they knew better than most of us just how many bad-guys there are in the world.
In my opinion, they didnt give their daughters away to some strange man by mistake. They were there for a reason.
I believe that the only mistake here was that their daughter ended up dead -- I believe THAT'S the part they didn't expect. When Aliahna was first reported missing everyone in the family leapt to Uncle Mikes defense, and all immediately began slandering the missing girl. Shes got problems, they said. She sleepwalks, shes got ADHD and OCD and XYZ and MSNBC, shell turn up with some crazy story, ignore her and listen to us, listen to Uncle Mike whos pretty much the greatest guy in America.
Who would say that crap about their missing daughter?
I believe it is entirely possible that we are looking at a bigger crime involving more people than we know about so far. As impossible as this is to imagine, it is easier to believe than the story the parents are asking us to accept.
Just my opinion of course. If someone, like the parent's for example, has a better explanation I would very much like to hear it.