GRT
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Linda Hoffman Pugh has made some disturbing comments about the parenting skills of JB. She was there and testified before the GJ.
I always refer back to those 13 jurors and the four True Bills they agreed on…
JB was stressed the month of December. Her bedwetting returned and she was being SA. Did this have anything to do with her responsibilities as a six year old?
Pugh made a lot of unsubstantiated claims, in addition to filing suits against the Ramseys and Alex Hunter. Both of those suits were dismissed because she couldn’t prove her claims.
Pugh also made the false claim that she had to turn over handwriting to LE, but Patsy didn’t have to.
Dr. Meyer found no evidence of prior SA of JonBenet.
I think it’s important to criticize how Patsy inflicted the demands on a 6 year old child. IMO those representations were sexualizing JonBenet. There was nothing wholesome about them IMO. Not from the choices Patsy made for JB and consequently she was being criticized by her circle of friends. Notably the Fernies and the Whites.
The Whites had nothing critical to say about the Ramseys until LE told both parties the other party suspected them in the killing. Then, they turned on one another. Not uncommon in that sort of situation.
Living vicariously through a child can be harmful. Or, it doesn’t have to be.Living vicariously through a child can reap loads of damage to that child. There are many accounts of young lives lost for a chance at stardom by looking the other way. This is not uncommon.
But it can also propel a parent into inappropriate and impossible demands on a child. IMO Patsy was walking a very thin line here,
and living with enormous stresses herself. December 1996 everything was escalating…
I agree Patsy was living under stress, having recently gone into remission for a type of cancer that frequently returns.