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Am I the only one that thinks that maybe?

posted 16 years ago by gg_uaw9669
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Yes, it's tragic that this young girl was abducted, and good lord knows exactly WHAT has happened to her, but, if her parents had showed more concern to begin with, and not allowed a senior in high school to leave the country on a practically unsupervised (very lightly, anyway) trip, then this whole fiasco would not continue to play it's self out in the public conciousness.
It's a little late to start showing parental concern after your child is more than likely dead. That would have been more convincing if you had set the limits to begin with, and said "no". That's why you're the grown up. Tragedy follows when you let a child make the grown-up decisions.

I've....seen things you people wouldn't believe; Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

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[–] proudjagwife 16 years ago

I do feel so bad for Natalie's family. Not knowing what happened to your child must be hell :( But from the begining back in 2005 I always wondered why in the heck they let her go out of the country like that. It just baffles the mind

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[–] gg_uaw9669 16 years ago

Well, they should've been able to tell their little bundle of sunshine wasn't mature enough to handle the situation, and, to answer your question about keeping kids at community college, why not? Again, if your child is not mature enough to handle going away to school, by all means, keep them at home for an extra year or two until they are. I'm glad you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and your mother was dumb enough to let you run amuck just so you didn't get *angry* with her, it sounds like she's lucky she's NOT the one having a LMN movie of the week made about her. Also, ask yourself how many of these druggie nit-wits you've seen drop out since you were in school?

I've....seen things you people wouldn't believe; Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

[–] Redeverlasting 15 years ago

i agree a bit but seniors are mostly 18. a family friend of ours went on her senior trip to cancun and came home early. said her classmates had completely come out of the woodwork w/ drinking, drugging, and were having full blown orgies and s***. based off of her upbringing from childhood, she made the decisions she did to not participate or even remain in the company of that mess. we have them, we raise them, and we send them off to live their lives for themselves

[–] medicine_freak 15 years ago

Look. $hit happens anywhere and everywhere. I could think of a long list of places in the US that can be just as dangerous (if not more dangerous) than many foreign countries out there. You can't blame her parents for something that doesn't happen to 99.9% of the high school students that go on foreign trips. That's like blaming a doctor for killing a patient because he gave the proper medication, but due to some very rare side effect that happens in 1 : 1000000 ratio, the patient got killed.

That being said, instead of blaming her parents, simply take the lessons from this tragic story, and improve upon your life. Her parents went through hell as it is, blaming them is as useless as it is baseless.

[–] capnmorgan5150 15 years ago

This is another good example of the Darwin Theory at work. The stupid ones get picked off. Therefore they can't breed. It makes the human species stronger. What did she thing was going to happen when she got into a car with 3 guys she didn't know? That just screams gang rape. Stupid slut. Oh, and her mom is the biggest media whore I've ever seen in my life. Just can't wait to make that next TV appearance or write another book about her dumb dead daughter. Let's cash in on my daughter's death over and over again. I don't know how she sleeps at night. She's obviously a sociopath and doesn't really care about her daughter as much as she does the money and fame. I hope they both rot in hell.

[–] Flamingo_22 15 years ago

It is almost the same letting your teen kid go somewhere on Spring Break with her friends. I was allowed to leave the state with people my mother trusted while I was almost killed in a car wreck from a thought to be responsible older friend drank and drove crashing the car. You can't baby sit your kids every second. At that age they want to go places with their friends and the parents think that they will be safe sticking all together and NOT GOING OFF WITH STRANGE MEN IN THEIR CAR. I even knew not to do that when I was 7 never mind 16.

To make it worst. Her friend called to her "DON'T GET INTO THAT CAR" and she just was like "OHHHHHH I LOVE THIS BYE SEE YA LATER BHAHAHAHA. Stupid FOOL. She asked for it by being that stupid. Her friend even had common sense and begged her not to get into that car. It's not as if she was stranded and for me, even if I was stranded I would not get into a car with a bunch of strange men. How can you feel sorry for somebody with no sense acting like a complete trashy, trampy bimbo that did not take the precautions a six year old would know better. But she was not even stranded. Her friends were there and she was suppose to stay with her friends. Her poor parents would not imagine she could be so careless and stupid

Excuse her parents for thinking she had common sense and a half of a brain. Obviously she did not

[–] izzyslash89 14 years ago

I think it's also very possible that she was given Rohypnol while she was still at the bar. That would've seriously affected her decision-making.

"Dear Diary, Jackpot"-Quagmire

[–] asdf189756 11 years ago

she wasn't a senior in high school, she had graduated and was an adult, how could her mother have stopped her?

I am in the UK so was a year younger than her when I finished school and went on holiday with friends. we paid for it with part time jobs so how could our parents have stopped us?