I’m happy that she’s getting released, but there are probably a lot of other people stuck in prison for crimes that they committed out of desperation. It’s like the Gabby Petito situation, where young white women get a lot of attention for things that happen to other people who get completely ignored.
While I agree for the most part, you don’t think that maybe in this case it’s because:
It involves Munchausen’s by proxy which is a pretty rare diagnosis,
She endured years of horrific medical, mental and physical abuse by the mother which brings up some serious moral questions in terms of what else she could have done to escape,
She didn’t actually commit the murder, it was the boyfriend she met online who is intellectually disabled and is now serving a life sentence.
Idk, that sounds like enough to make a headline without her gender or skin color brought into it.
Doesn’t necessarily need to be munchausen, plenty of people kill their abusers and get locked up for it. People get abducted and their bodies aren’t found in state parks, it doesn’t need to match the original story 100%
Jesus fuck that was a depressing read.
Here’s an A&E episode about her…
There’s a miniseries as well. The Act (2019).
Aren’t we supposed to call them Roma now?
That’s her name
That’s unfortunate
I know a woman like her mother. She has crippled her own children and made them all dependent on her entirely. Her oldest is in his 40s now.
She made a junkie out of him when he was a preteen. She’d send him out to sell her oxycodone. “If you don’t get at least 40 of these sold I won’t give you any and you’ll have to deal with that.”
That only worked for so long until he started stealing them all. He’s been in and out of jail. “What would you do without mommy? Who would bail you out?” Of course she still supplies his habit enough to keep him dependent and takes only what she needs to take to have them in her system for a doctors visit.
She told the next kid she was schizophrenic. Had her on meds and totally dependent. Once her daughter had a son, she convinced her to sign over her rights and let her go. Her son thinks she’s his sister. Now she’s the “bad kid who ran off and left us to fend for ourselves.”
Her third child was a brilliant kid, super intelligent, but he’s been convinced he has schizophrenia too. He’s in his 30s now and had lost all of his teeth by 25. Still lives with mom and she won’t let him out of her sight. He’s also a junkie who is supplied entirely by her.
The grandson was twice as smart as her last kid. He could’ve been anything he wanted to be. Instead, he’s “schizophrenic” too and entirely dependent on his grandma. High functioning autistic, maybe. Schizophrenic, no fucking way.
It breaks my heart thinking about them.
The oldest is an insanely talented guitarist, but he’s a slave to his mother and never had a chance to be anything but what she wanted.
I would bet the daughter ends up living back at home too if she isn’t already.
Their father died from cancer when they were very young and she just lost it and did everything she could, the wrong way, to keep them close.
On top of verbal abuse, Gypsy claims Dee Dee began “hitting, punching, slapping” her to get her way. “It was very similar to a domestic violence type of relationship,” she says. “As long as you’re complacent everything’s fine. Put your foot down, then it’s bad.”
That’s it similar to domestic violence. It is domestic violence.
As for the rest of it, Gypsy and like a better person than me. I don’t think I could regret ending the years and years of torture that woman did.
No, she deserved it
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What was she supposed to be reformed from? Lashing out at the guardian who lied about her age and abused her with munchausen by proxy to the point of matricide? Something tells me she won’t be a repeat offender.
However, it is hard to repeat matricide. Usually, though there are exceptions.
