Thanks, Anonymous - I fully understand why you didn't want to post your name with this, and I'm, well, not glad exactly, but impressed that you brought this up at all, even anonymously. Child abuse is not an easy thing to talk about even when you're not connected to it - when it's your own family, it's even harder.
Yes, the mother does share some of the blame. I don't know why she let her sons go there - that part didn't come up in the application - but I can only guess that maybe she wanted to allow her children to know their grandparents. And maybe deep down she couldn't believe it would happen again. I don't know if they were allowed to stay overnight - the grandparents live about two hours' drive away from the mother - but it looks like the mother's poor judgement has played its own part in this tragedy. I only hope those poor kids get some well-needed help to get through this intact.
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Date: 2001-05-30 12:38 am (UTC)Yes, the mother does share some of the blame. I don't know why she let her sons go there - that part didn't come up in the application - but I can only guess that maybe she wanted to allow her children to know their grandparents. And maybe deep down she couldn't believe it would happen again. I don't know if they were allowed to stay overnight - the grandparents live about two hours' drive away from the mother - but it looks like the mother's poor judgement has played its own part in this tragedy. I only hope those poor kids get some well-needed help to get through this intact.