It's heartbreaking even to try.
I'm mother to a son. A son I've loved, nurtured, fed, brought up, read stories to and tucked into bed at night. I'm sure his parents once felt the same about him. I cannot imagine how it must feel to know that your own child grew up to be what he was, and was capable of doing what he did. I'd never recover.
I heard the key points at the time of the trial and won't be rereading them now. Watkins tainted everything and everyone who surrounded him and has caused untold suffering in many quarters - most of all his victims who I really hope never have to know the truth about their tragic backgrounds or what their mothers willingly did to them.
I can't begin to wrap my head around what motivates such people and I don't want to. It really doesn't bear thinking about - any of it.