Posted on 02/09/2002 6:53:27 AM PST by crypt2k
Your cousin's friend has no clue when he is saying.
Just because we are all naked and groping in the garage doesn't mean we can't hear a kidnapper sneaking into our home.
"Nothing would get in between me checking on my children."
A wild orgy couldn't keep me from it.
I'm sorry I don't remember all the details but she was later found innocent and set free.
Since the Australian people are mostly descendants of the "stiff upper lip" British and the Irish who keep to themselves, I found it strange that they would think the lack of a public display of emotion automatically cried "guilty".
If the alarm went off regulary when it shouldn't have I would have had that darn thing checked out. What good does it do if it constantly gives false alarms?
If this is true, there's a lot more going on in that house than these parents are saying. This is a classic line from a child that's being sexually abused.
I found the above, there's a book "A Cry in the Night".
Here's a little bit from it
Initially, Lindy and Michael attempted to defend themselves against the rumours and accusations, but quickly learned that few journalists could be trusted to record their interviews with accuracy. Every media appearance they made seemed to fuel the rumours even more, especially when they spoke openly about their faith and their beliefs as Seventh Day Adventists. Lindy was considered to be strange, too hard, too unmotherly. Why didn’t she cry?
We tend to project our own emotional reactions onto others. The more emotional of us study the behavior of the more constrained individuals and find them lacking. On the other hand, constrained people might feel those who display overpowering emotions are putting on a show. Who knows how either of them would react in a tragic situation?
Yet, even among constrained people, we can usually detect physical cues or verbal nuances that reveal that they are striving to maintain control over their feelings. When those subtle cues are missing, even innocent people seem guilty of something, we just are not sure what. The truth is, some people successfully conceal their feelings because they have a strong will or strong pride. Others conceal their feelings because they don't have strong feelings to hide.
As in the Ramsey case, we may never know what truly happened to this little girl, but many of us didn't feel comfortable about the Ramseys because their words didn't match up to their nonverbal behaviors. I still believe there are parents who go through the motions of caring, convince themselves that they do care, and yet lack that certain "something" that we expect to pick up on when we hear them talk about their kids. I don't see the cues I'm looking for on the faces of these parents. They may be innocent, but they make me uncomfortable.
On the way you see pictures of this little girl everywhere, on cars, intersection signs, light posts. You get close to the house and there are pink and purple ribbons everywhere. I drove down the street and came upon huge vans, trucks and antennas. There is a big group of media surrounding the house. On the corner of the street is a playground with a big banner reading, “We miss you Danielle, hurry home”. It hit me, there is a little human being who is gone and this is real. Don’t get me wrong, it is not that I didn’t know the reality of it before, it’s just that when you look at the house that she lived in and see the families and children that she knew playing in the street, you just get a real dose of reality.
The bottom line is this. I have been one that has gotten sucked onto the media hype about who did it, what’s the deal with the idiot parents, and what about this scumbag neighbor? The real story is that a little girl was taken from her home and she is probably dead. I don’t know if her parents did it, I don’t know if the perv down the street did it, I don’t know if a stranger did it. All that I know is that SOMEONE DID IT! and a precious child is gone. What breaks my heart the most is the terror that she must have experienced. I know a little bit about that because my home was invaded by a horrible man in the middle of the night and he did unspeakable things. Fortunately, I lived. Unfortunately, Danielle probably did not.
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