Posted on 01/05/2007 11:01:13 AM PST by Cecily
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The stepfather of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, has filed for divorce from Holloway's mother, Beth Twitty.
George "Jug" Twitty filed divorce papers in Jefferson County Circuit Court on Dec. 29. The court filing said the couple separated Dec. 15 and have "such a complete incompatibility of temperament that the parties can no longer live together."
The Birmingham News reported the court filing Friday.
Jug Twitty declined comment on the divorce proceedings, and a phone message left for Beth Twitty on Friday was not immediately returned.
The couple attracted international attention after Holloway, then 18, disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, while on a graduation trip with fellow students from Mountain Brook High School.
The Twittys appeared together during the early stages of the search. As it dragged on, Jug Twitty returned to Birmingham, and Beth Twitty remained in Aruba for almost three months.
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Holy cow! Someone didn't raise you properly to make a comment like that!
No Problem.
I think we know too much about this mother, and this causes some judgment to be made about her character.
In reality, this is the fault of the teen and the teen alone.
I don't want to blame the victim, but this set-up was perfect for disaster. Furthermore, she had been drinking the entire day. Who knows how experienced she was with alcohol or how street-smart she was. Because of her own behavior, it becomes more difficult to distinguish the facts from the lies. Who knows...she might have gotten overwhelming drunk and suffered from alcohol poisoning and drowned. She might have been a target from the moment she walked in and been served a date-rape drug and died from an overdose. It also seems that it would have been a whole lot less likely that she would have been abducted in their car had a more experienced adult at least been in the bar. And were there no "sister's keepers" with her, concerned that she had driven off alone with 3 locals? A search for her earlier than the next morning might have been helpful.
Just because she was over 18 didn't mean that she had adult judgment and everyone is always on a learning curve. However, this is a cautionary tale for others.
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