Most abused children certainly don't commit crimes on that scale. It should be acknowledged, though, that while all abuse of children is terrible in the extreme, the extent to which Lisa Montgomery was abused was greater than that of the vast, vast majority of abused children. And it feels wrong to try and quantify child abuse but while some survivors of abuse, if given the right help, can go on to leave happy, fulfilling, well balanced lives, Lisa Montgomery never had a fucking chance.
Agree with this. Except she did have a chance because there were so many times where there was the possibility of intervention. That makes me so angry, the number of people who knew and did nothing, absolutely nothing, to rescue a child from such appalling abuse. They didn't even try.
What would have been a far more likely- probable, really- scenario would have been for her to abuse her own children, which is much, much more common outcome. And then everyone would be reserving their sympathy for her children. Until her children grew up and did the same thing to their children, at which point some people on here would be braying for their deaths.
It's sickening how upset people get a the death of some beautiful, angelic looking child while not giving a shit about what happens to the abused, neglected children who don't die and grow up to do awful things themselves. Real life is messy and difficult and complicated, easier to get upset about a photograph in the paper, blame some social workers for not intervening and move on.