Heymom
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I am now to the point where I believe Burke definitely did it all. For years, many of us believed that Burke would eventually turn state's evidence against his parents. Now it is clear that his long silence was self-serving like everything he did. The fact that Burke stuck to the lame cover story all these years is a de facto confession. I am satisfied that we know the who and the why. Even the how. We know the crime scene/body was cleaned. All that remains are questions relative to how culpable the parents were in the abuse. We do know they allowed their son to be a dangerous predator. Moo.
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As awful as the consequences were, I am not ready to condemn John and Patsy - yes, they made mistakes and didn't protect JonBenet adequately, but I'm certain they did not know or believe that Burke was capable of such horrible things. At what point do you remove a child from your home? They may have gotten medical evaluations and were told by psychiatrists that this jealousy/anger problem could be addressed and fixed. Patsy's phone calls to the pediatrician's office on Dec. 17th to me suggest that something had happened that day and she was in need of guidance. Maybe the phone call to 911 on the 23rd was the next escalation and they played that off because it was almost Christmas. Maybe they were hoping that things would calm down after Christmas and after all, they were going on a cruise and there would be a lot of distractions for the children.
Patsy had her own health problems and was likely overwhelmed with her responsibilities, and John traveled a lot and was an absent father. Not the kind of family where a very troubled child would be supervised adequately enough.
And yes, they did the wrong thing once they found JonBenet dead - out of panic and a desire to hide what had happened. They lawyered up and tried to protect Burke, which meant that JonBenet died and was dishonored in her death (can't fight back, she's already out of our reach so let's get on with our lives & do what we can to at least salvage Burke).
Now, mind you, if JR had been abusing JBR, my speculations are invalidated. There's a different scenario in that case, but I won't go into that here.