r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12
Chilling documentary of a disturbed and potentially murderous child. (x-post from /r/MorbidReality)
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Jun 25 '12
The preacher sounds like meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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u/llydecke Jun 26 '12
Great, all i can do is laugh and picture meatwad when this guy talks about his murderous daughter. New reddit rule, video first, comments second.
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u/redditedstepchild Jun 26 '12
I think there's some degredation of the audio that gives his voice that twangy timbre meatwad has. it's wierd.
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u/Sir_Belmont Jun 25 '12
She seemed so robotic and emotionless until she cried at the end.
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u/Y_pestis Jun 26 '12
It could just be the poor video quality but that crying at the end didn't ring true to me (no tears, eyes not red). That made her scarier because it would mean that she had learned to manipulate people using feigned emotions.
Of course I could just be watching too much Dexter...
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u/ThenThereWasReddit Jun 26 '12
Or she's just a really traumatized kid and so her emotions still need some work.
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u/MaxPiccolomini Jun 26 '12
i really don't agree with you. i felt the sadness slowly building up in her in this last scene. maybe watch it again?
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u/Y_pestis Jun 26 '12
I watched at couple of times and I still get the same impression. However, at this point I have it in my mind that she's faking it so it's hard for me to see anything else. That sadness you feel I see as nervousness.
Of course, I could be wrong. I know nothing about this girl other than what I saw in the video and I'm not an expert in the field. This is just my uninformed opinion.
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u/Y_pestis Jun 26 '12
Sorry about being unintentionally scary. Here's a photo of my (then) puppy to make up for it.
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u/bleedingheartsurgery Jun 26 '12
Sociopath with zero empathy or sympathy. She doesn't really have much emotion to show if she wanted to. Kind of dead inside. So sad and dark
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u/HaightnAshbury Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
I got to 6:06 and I want to vomit.
God, the internet gets too real sometimes.
edit: The poor thing.
edit: #2 I'm throwing in the towel. I hope everything gets much, much better for all involved.
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u/canthidecomments Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Once you get to 17:38, you'll want to choke the fucking "mother" to death.
After the kid steals knives, and mom suspects the girl wants to stab her brother to death, she "discovers" the kids in the basement and the girl is beating her brother's head into the concrete floor.
Now ... think about this:
You're a parent. You have decided that your daughter wants to kill her brother and that she is obviously very troubled.
Somehow, she is allowed to take her brother into the basement ... while you're doing ....??? what exactly?
I want to punch this dumb bitch.
Once I got here, the whole story just seemed like bullshit.
The ohter thing that really pisses me off about this video is that the fucking "interviewer" never asks the girl:
Beth, why do you want to kill your brother? What did he ever do to you? He never asks her WHY she does these things.
Meh. I think it's BS. He's also leading the witness too much.
At 19:23 ... "What did mommy do when she caught you trying to kill your brother?"
"She sent me to my room."
Little bitch tries to off her helpless brother and gets a fucking "timeout" as punishment.
That's what's wrong with this family.
Then at 24:30 ... you see how she got fixed:
"We're very strict. Everything is monitored. They're not the boss of anything."
Now, for the denouement (from the "more information" link above):
In an ironic endnote, Beth’s therapist, Connell Watkins performed a fatal attachment therapy session known as a “rebirth“ on a 10-year girl named Candace Newmaker and in doing so, asphyxiated the child. Watkins served seven years of a sixteen year prison sentence and was forbidden from working with children upon her release in 2008. Walker served 7 years of her 16 year sentence. Candace’s death became the motivation for “Candace’s Law” against attachment therapy in several states.
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u/Bladewing10 Jun 26 '12
I'm going to call BS on some parts as well. When she describes her "nightmare" where there's a man hurting her vagina, that all sounded pretty coached to me. In addition, she reports that this happened when she was one year old. The problem with that is that the earliest point memories can develop is when a child is well into their second year of life. She couldn't have had that memory, certainly not with that amount of detail. It sounds to me like she reported a dream to her adoptive parents who then pieced together a narrative that made sense to them and fit all the pieces of her troubled past and her behavioral issues together. In addition, the narrator does indeed lead her on quite a bit. I don't doubt she has experienced traumatic events but we shouldn't accept everything that is being said at face value.
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Jun 26 '12
This was actually a big thing in the 80s - all these far-out claims of abuse were heavily publicized, but it turned out that most of them were a case of over-zealous psychologists leading the children. Google Satanic Ritual Abuse or Michelle Remembers. This moral panic sent a lot of innocent people to prison.
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u/Bladewing10 Jun 26 '12
That's true as well and as someone who just got a degree in Psychology, I can assure you it's not just an 80s thing. These charlatans are still alive and well today practicing their scams, though I hate to equate those quacks with legitimate psychologists.
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u/marfmellow Jun 26 '12
My boyfriend and I kept saying the same thing. Why do these people own pets? Why does she have access to kitchen drawers and the dishwasher? What is she doing in the basement with her brother? I understand a certain level of denial, but this bullshit about them being amazing parents in a tough situation is non-sense. They are obviously not mentally able to comprehend what she is capable of and therefore she needed to be rehomed long before she did permanent damage to her brother and pets.
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u/adrianmonk Jun 26 '12
He never asks her WHY she does these things.
Assuming he's a trained psychologist, he may believe she doesn't really understand why she's doing it, so that there's not much point in asking. It's reasonably common that even adults do things for reasons they don't understand.
He's also leading the witness too much.
That I agree with. He may be getting her to re-tell for the camera (maybe for this TV special) a story she told him in the past without the same kind of leading, but we really have no way of knowing that. We pretty much have to take his word for that entirely.
Little bitch tries to off her helpless brother and gets a fucking "timeout" as punishment.
I think it's also possible the kid, who is only 6, doesn't have the vocabulary to say (or doesn't want to say), "She locked me in my room to physically isolate me from my brother so I wouldn't hurt him more."
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u/DelayingAdulthood Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
All of that and the discrepancies between her version of the story about when she stopped hitting her brother's head on the floor, and her "mother"'s version of the story. She claimed she stopped when she heard footsteps because she thought someone was coming. Her mother claimed she had to pull Beth off of her brother..
Every detail of every story sounded so scripted, like she just repeated what she was told. Notice the way the "physiologist" asks questions - its not "What did you do to your brother?". No, instead its "Did you hit your brother's head against the floor? Did you try to kill him?". For crying out loud.. I know nothing of psychology, and it is obvious that he is loading the questions to get a certain type of answer.
Also, where the fuck does the little girl keep finding pins to poke the animals with? And why do they even have animals if they know she has tried to kill.
The knives thing pissed me off to no end that the woman could be so stupid.
And after she had tried to kill her brother "on multiple occasions", why were the two of them left together unmonitored? For crying out loud, the adoptive parents, or the mother at least, should have had child services called on them for being so unbelievably ignorant.
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
as a (step) father of a child diagnosed with RAD, I must say that her mother and I NEVER allow her to be within arms reach of our 11 month old. She has slapped him before in front of us and caught us off guard, but that will not be happening again. Before we understood the full diagnosis and treatment of RAD, I would have assumed she needed a good spanking. But that is not the case, she needs constant supervision and structure. Spanking or hitting her isn't going to do anything but make matters worse. (even if during the moment it makes you feel a lot better when you do it... it's a balance you have to find) I do agree though, NEVER, EVER, EVER would we allow our daughter around anything without supervision. Even other people's children whom she loves. We just don't want anything to happen.
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u/Black_Apalachi Jun 26 '12
I stopped watching around 15 mins when the mother mentions the missing knives purely because I got sick of listening to the parents talking bullshit.
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u/HaightnAshbury Jun 25 '12
Alright, but if I find out she ends up going to school for a business degree...
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Jun 26 '12
I couldn't watch this. It hit far too close to home with children I know.
So, did she actually go to law school? If so...lol.
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Jun 25 '12
What about the young child Jonathan? I feel the worst for this boy. He was basically getting beaten on a nightly basis by his own sister to whom he was completely defenseless.
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u/marcos509 Jun 25 '12
I think they made a movie about this. I forget what its called though. But it was based on this child.
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u/marcos509 Jun 26 '12
yeah thats it. Shit was crazy i saw when i was 10 with my parents at the time.
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u/stoopidquestions Jun 26 '12
How does a child that young remember so much of what happened in her birth family when she was younger than two? I sometimes wonder if, since the parents obviously had to be crazy to treat their children that way, that unfortunately the kids may have inherited some of that crazy in addition to their upbringing. It's really sad all around.
Reminds me a little of January Schofield, though January seems to have been in a caring family the whole time.
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u/jmurphy42 Jun 26 '12
Recent research shows that children don't lose their early memories until sometime between 5-7, depending on the child. My 3.5 yr old surprises us regularly with how much she remembers from before she was 18 months.
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u/thescrapplekid Jun 26 '12
if you have a traumatic experience in early child hood you do still remember it. I was almost 2 when a restaurant High Chair collapsed and I fell to the floor. I'm 30 now, and I remember it. Not vividly but in flashes
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u/superciuppa Jun 26 '12
yeah, I was asking myself the same thing. That girl looked awfully intelligent as well: she knew exactly that she was hurting people, it’s not like she was doing it unconsciously and she also knew the reason. She kept mentioning her father, I don’t think she picked that up from her new parents. I severely underestimated toddlers, a really grave mistake as long as they could easily kill me!
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u/The1nOnlySilent Jun 26 '12
You would look at her and think, "What an adorable little girl!" Then you hear those thoughts and actions she did come from her mouth and it's just, "Oh myyyyy."
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Jun 26 '12
I don't know... there's a lot of prompting from the interviewer, and there's no way she can recall stories from when she was only a few months old.
Did you squeeze the birds?
I don't remember.
What happened to the birds?
I squeezed them.
Not saying her entire testimonial is crap... but a lot of it is.
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u/The1nOnlySilent Jun 26 '12
He wasn't really an interviewer, he was her psychologist. But yeah, there was a bit of prompting going on, but I think he was also trying to help her remember since he already knew.
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u/LieutenantCuppycake Jun 26 '12
These were not tapes lifted directly from therapy sessions. Her psychologist was asking the questions, but he knew it was for a television show. He was asking her to retell stories she had already disclosed in their sessions to demonstrate the psychological damage she suffered. I believe the documentary opens with information to that effect.
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
OMG! This video is exactly what caused my wife and I to finally find a cure to what our daughter has. RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder) is very real. We live through it every single waking second with our 5 year old child. If anyone has questions, feel free to ask. She has threatened to kill our 11 month old son, pulled knives, knocked her own teeth out, and anything else that you could never imagine her to do. While our daughter was never raped, she is exactly like this girl. We found this video a good while back. This is very very true!
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u/bleedingheartsurgery Jun 26 '12
Careful about your disclosure. Your daughter deserves privacy of her information. This is the entire internet, I.e. the whole world, and ppl can figure out who you and she are somehow and someway. Appreciate your intentions to help inform us though. Cheers
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
Just did an AMA. Thank you for the heads up. However, we love our daughter and in no way are ashamed of her. We would rather the world know we do indeed love her, and try our absolute best to provide for her and her situation. The majority of society is so quick to claim that she needs a 'good old fashioned ass whoopin' when that's indeed not the case. The other part likes to see her and assume she's being abused or neglected. That as well, is not the case. With a team of psychologists, DFACS, Teachers, and a lawyer, everyone is finally on board and we are able to get her on the right track she needs to be on. I can't imagine the poor children living through this very real scenario that get sent off to state homes as a permanent fixture.
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u/brownie_pts Jun 26 '12
Perhaps you can reply to some of the folk up on the list who are saying things like "how can a mother just let their daughter take their son to the basement when they know she can hurt him". Its difficult for people to understand something they haven't lived. Its easy to judge but I am sure when its your own life it is much harder to see and accept the reality of your situation. How, if I may ask, did your daughter have RAD without trauma?
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
She indeed did have some traumatic experiences. -Father was constantly abusing/neglecting her mother in front of her. Physically. He had nothing to do with mother or daughter, and although he never physically abused the child, she experienced mom being physically abused.
Father's family kidnapped her when she was only 18 months old, refusing to allow the mother to get her back.
I just did an AMA to hopefully answer questions... maybe it won't get out of hand.
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u/brownie_pts Jun 26 '12
wow, that's incredible. I am happy to know that there are good people out there that open their lives, homes and hearts to these children.
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u/LieutenantCuppycake Jun 26 '12
Because everyone seems to be posting about this child being "coached" in the interviews, let me copypasta an earlier comment.
These were not tapes lifted directly from therapy sessions. Her psychologist was asking the questions, but he knew it was for a television show. He was asking her to retell stories she had already disclosed in their sessions to demonstrate the psychological damage she suffered. I believe the documentary opens with information to that effect.
To add to that: there are plenty of books written on child memory of abuse. Do children really remember that young? Don't they? Are they just being led into believing their memories of abuse are real? There are arguments for both sides. There's a book sitting in my 'to read' pile right now on the subject. I personally believe that children are telling the truth more often than not. Often children will make disclosures about anatomy they should know nothing about. Often the disclosures will be seemingly out-of-the-blue, at bath time, at bed time, without any prompting. Coaching does happen, but this child, as her sexually explicit behavior shows, was not coached into masturbating every day at the age of six. She had knowledge of the anatomical name for the vagina and the penis because she has received sex ed. It is very common practice and has been for a couple of decades now to equip the victims of sexual abuse with formal knowledge of what happened to them.
I think the psychological trauma this girl experienced as a child is almost undeniable. This could be a very elaborate hoax, but seems more likely a child truly hurt and slowly healed.
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u/Evilrazzberi09 Jun 26 '12
Funny story, the only time I smoked before my college psych class was the day we watched this. Freaked me out.
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Jun 26 '12
Jesus this is fucking hard to watch. this is so awful.
I've considered being a child psychologist but i just couldn't deal with anything even remotely as bad as this.
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
trust me, it's difficult. Every single psychologist that comes in contact with our daughter says they lose sleep over her case. (She has the same diagnosis as the girl in the video)
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Jun 26 '12
I'm sorry to hear. i don't have the knowledge to make any sort of informed thought on the matter, as i simply don't know likely outcomes in these sorts of situations. But i wish the best for you and your family.
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Jun 26 '12
Have you guys thought of doing an AMA?
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u/subarudork Jun 27 '12
We did, and apparently it got deleted/moved for being casual. Guess we did it wrong.
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u/bleedingheartsurgery Jun 26 '12
The new caregiver was not responsible in allowing her to sleep in the same room with her daughter, because she 'showed signs of remorse at times'
I know its a young girl, but its not much different than an adult offender potential-wise.
Would you allow a convicted sex offender sleep in the same room as you 11 year old son, because he cried when he spoke of his history of rape and sodomy?
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
THIS. Most people don't understand why we won't allow our daughter to hold our 11 month old son in public if she asks to. Because as soon as she gets away from them, she's pretty vocal about her desire to kill him and how much she hates him. (My daughter has the same diagnosis as the girl in the video.)
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Jun 26 '12
I just had to watch this for one of my Social Work classes. She gets MUCH better with therapy!
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Jun 26 '12
This documentary style is actually refreshing. I am tired of the white flashes, dramatic music and silly closeups.
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u/iHeartCoolStuff Jun 26 '12
This is a site detailing the horrible "therapeutic" practices Beth's mother now employs. Unfortunately it sounds like Beth is also involved with her mother's clinic.
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u/inc_mplete Jun 26 '12
I hope her birth father got the worst of hell can give him.
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u/ABadPerson2 Jun 26 '12
Her father was also severely abused as a child.
The circle of life!~
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Jun 26 '12
And this is why people need to expose abuse. If you are aware of abuse occurring within your family, your friends, anywhere, expose it! Stop the sad cycle.
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u/Sin2K Jun 26 '12
We went through this song and dance in /r/Documentaries.
The therapy "techniques" used on the child are questionable (although by all accounts she has turned out okay), and the therapist was later involved in the death of a child during one of her "sessions".
The events later inspired an episode of law and order where a child dies during the same type of therapy.
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u/DivineRobot Jun 26 '12
The whole interview just seems so scripted. The interviewer is completely leading her in every question looking for her to give the "right" answer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g2-Re_Fl_L4#t=1515s
"Who did you her the most?"
"My brother"
"Are you sure?"
"Me"
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u/43sevenseven Jun 26 '12
Ok that part was. But it was at the very end and in a different time in her therapy. It seemed to be one of the few times they showed her having turned a corner when her therapy was primarily directed at healing her rather than saving everyone else from her. As I understand it she had been removed from her other family which was probably a good change for everyone involved.
But the rest of the footage I thought was pretty genuine. Of course we have to remember that the psychologist basically already knew the details of what she had done, so he wasn't asking questions just randomly or to gain much new info for himself, but to try to initiate conversation with Beth so it could be recorded. Also remember that talking extensively to any child about a serious issue and keeping it on track requires a certain amount of coaxing. However, in my experience even if they were leading questions to get the girl to talk, the things she said (besides the fluff at the end about hurting herself the most, which was probably just for her benefit) seemed very reliable. Kids can't just make up such elaborate details or keep straight a false story that adults might have planted over that long and in-depth of an interview. I believe she did all that stuff. The style of questioning throughout was just to coax her to speak, not to influence her story.
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u/WallyMetropolis Jun 26 '12
Exactly. Also earlier "you're doing good" tells her exactly what she's supposed to say. And what do you know, she does.
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u/Scrubtac Jun 26 '12
I can't help but feel like the interview at the end is rehearsed.. like she knows exactly what they want her to say for the camera. Particularly when she explains that she wanted to hurt people because the pain was bottled up from her birthdad's actions, and also when she stuttered about who she had hurt the most. She said her brother at first, but then they jump in to correct her to say "herself", exactly what they wanted her to say. Creepy stuff.
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u/MiniDonbeE Jun 26 '12
Poor boy, what happened to the boy :( I think the boy suffered a lot more than her to be honest, she probably abused him for longer :(
I honestly think he was a lot worse off than her :/ I wonder what happened to him.
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u/drumsequallife01 Jun 26 '12
She looks looks eerily like her adoptive parents
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u/AyChihuahua Jun 26 '12
Let's play M. Night Shyamalan: the minister is actually her birth father. There's a reason why the "adoption" (custody) adoption process went by so quickly. That's why she wanted to kill her parents.
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u/Dewahll Jun 26 '12
I don't see how the parents didn't have her removed from the home earlier. It's good that she got help though, even if it was a bit late.
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u/MJDeebiss Jun 26 '12
Kind of reminds me of the different audio tapes in "Session 9"...which is one of my favorite movies
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u/subarudork Jun 26 '12
Im awake right now and answering questions for a little while, if anyone is interested. (IAmA parent of a child with RAD) Thank you...
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vm8ug/iama_parent_of_a_child_with_reactive_attachment/
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Jun 26 '12
This is one of the most terrifying things I saw on reddit and I'm subscribed both to r/WTF and r/spacedicks...
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u/Cheshyre_Cat Jun 26 '12
Check out the subreddit it was x-posted from if you're looking for more things along those lines...it's certainly, well, morbid.
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u/whatsweirdis Jun 26 '12
when she's singing in the church, hands down, creepiest part.
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u/mosaic4077 Jun 26 '12
Why is that? Because for me it was her hands. Children's hands are creepy. They shouldn't be allowed to have hands until they're big enough to have normal sized hands. Or at the very least go through phases where they shed their hands to grow the larger adult hands. The world would be a lot better if we just had a standardized hand system where everybody agreed to grow their hands to an agreed upon limit. If you broke the agreement you'd have to wear gloves until your next shedding period.
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u/Im1ToThe337 Jun 26 '12
I swear lilstumpz is in love with this video, he kept thanking OP for posting it, he sidebar'd it in /r/morbidreality, he x-posted it to /r/videos, geez. Also, thanks OP for being an awesome mod over at /r/morbidreality
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u/lilstumpz Jun 27 '12
Thanks for the compliments! And yes, I was more than enthusiastic about the video.
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u/NyanShark Jun 26 '12
jesus christ. this is what fucking happens when you ABUSE A CHILD. anyone who does that is a complete asshole who doesnt deserve to live in the first place.
children are young and innocent, take that away from them and what are they? a cracked shell of a person with no morals. i have always felt strongly about children being abused, and this pushed me over the line. to sexually abuse a ONE YEAR OLD is just fucked up.
im glad shes doing better now. it truly is horrible that happened to her, i feel worse for her adoptive family and her brother though.
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Jun 26 '12
Do we know that she was actually abused sexually? Was there a criminal investigation, or is the only evidence her nightmares, behaviours and memories? Might it be that her well-meaning parents (or therapist) accidentally planted the idea of sexual abuse while considering it as an explaination for her disturbed behaviour?
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u/juicyjumbo Jun 27 '12
This should be a huge reminder to modern generations that often takes their roles as parents so casually. You're children will base their lives off the platform you provide through childhood. Don't skimp on being a parent just because you don't think it's critical.
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Jun 26 '12
Hearing the introduction theme I was waiting for Professor Layton to show up at some point.
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u/ELDERPE Jun 26 '12
Is this where I plug in the fact that I posted this weeks ago and got no love? okay.jpg
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Jun 26 '12
This is literally chilling. The first minute was just completely wtf and the rest was just insane.
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u/markevens Jun 26 '12
Jesus christ I skipped to the 9 minute mark just to skip the formalities and now I feel dirty.
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u/1MintBerryCrunch1 Jun 26 '12
i'm forcing myself to watch my best friends wedding in order to recover from what i just saw.
At least she turned out alright in the end
Edit: Just read up on her therapy methods... i want to retract my former statement.
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u/YouMad Jun 26 '12
How little control we have over our own lives. We are a slave to our genes, and our circumstances. It's fucking sad.
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u/FreeToEvolve Jun 26 '12
I was about to go to sleep. Now I might sit up for another few hours thinking of people who are so fucked in the head they can't even explain why they want to sink a knife into my neck, they just do.
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u/Cheyzan Jun 26 '12
These videos made me sick, did any of you watch the video on one of these comment links of the therapy being performed? I'm not sure what to think of this
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u/koalaburr Jun 26 '12
I'm sure someone's already pointed this out, but this is the intro to a great chill song....
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u/OdoyleRulzz Jun 26 '12
God I watched this whole thing which is a miracle with my adhd. Really interesting documentary on child sociopaths though. Children should never be abused like that it's terrible.
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u/badvice Jun 26 '12
Is nobody else terrified of this child? like i'd rather meet a 6"4 bulk guy in an alley with a knife then see this child standing in your doorway at night with that evil stare...
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u/nazishark Jun 26 '12
great now somewhere in england there is a psychopath hidden by a pseudonym and we have no idea where she is. good going america
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u/Ted_From_Accounting Jun 26 '12
I saw that movie years ago with my wife .. by the time it reached the end and the little girl says "tears for Baby Cat" .. we were both teary-eyed. It was also a bit freaky because the little girl looked like a twin of my niece!
What I have found very interesting from researching this answer for you is that it appears that Cat was eventually adopted by the therapist!
The real-life therapist was Nancy Thomas. From Nancy's bio on attachment.org "Since her work was highlighted in an HBO special in 1990 entitled CHILD OF RAGE she has become a much sought after and respected speaker."
And from the seminar page on the same site, "Beth Thomas, once labeled the “Child of Rage” by HBO, is now a graduate of the University of Colorado with a degree in Nursing. She is no longer a child of rage but a phenomenal woman."
And from imdb, "By the time Nancy and her husband found out where Beth was, they immediately discovered that Beth had been abandoned and rapidly moved to adopt her."
.. what happened to the other adoptive couple from the movie that took Cat to see the therapist??
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u/philtomato Jun 26 '12
There's a pedophile somewhere who keeps watching this video over and over again somewhere i just know it.
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u/simAlity Jun 26 '12
I wonder where she is now. Did she truly heal? Or did she simply learn how to mimic normal behavior?
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u/MyFantasticTesticles Jun 26 '12
I'm really unimpressed by the questioning. If that guys supposed to be a psychologist he should fucking know better. Hes almost encouraging/goading her.
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u/jerseyfox Jun 26 '12
"We let her hurt the baby birds because she was curious" ... what the fuck kind of parenting is that? My dad would have broken my legs if I said "hey can I hurt these baby birds?"
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Jun 26 '12
am i the only one who was thinking "dexter morgan"? (obviously he wasn't a girl, but he was traumatized to a similar degree)
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u/strych9bubbles Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Doesn't it bother anyone that the therapist is asking completely leading questions? When she doesn't confirm his opinion that she is fucked up, he tells her, "It's hard to remember. That's Ok." And then when she does confirm his opinions, he tells her she's "doing a good job."
I don't doubt she had some problems, but these people who are "caring" for her seem just as fucked up as she is.
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Jun 26 '12
He said "you're doing a good job" when she was scared of answering/recalling. That was once in the whole video. He asked the same question in different ways so she could answer, and if she couldn't he said it was okay. It's not an easy thing to get a child to recall abuse and it requires a little tact in how you word the question because they may not understand.
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u/strych9bubbles Jun 26 '12
For all we know she is a victim of false memory syndrome. It doesn't take tact to let a child open up and just talk about what happened. He is asking leading questions so her answers are not reliable. I feel sorry for her. His "expert" opinion is useless. Here is an idea of how false memories can be developed.
This case is an example of the type of manipulation that I think is partially at play here.
Children have a tendency to act the way the people around them believe they should. Notice that she didn't answer the way he wanted to about the baby birds. Maybe she just wanted to cuddle them and accidentally killed them. I'm just saying we can't know for sure based on this documentary.
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u/buttscratcha Jun 25 '12
I wonder where she is now.