Unknown Number:Highschool Catfish - Spoilers****

[Lentilcakes]

Has anyone else seen this very disturbing documentary on Netflix? I’m just sitting here thinking wtaf have I just watched? I thought it’d be some ‘light’ catfish story between kids but I was very wrong.

Spoliers below:

What sort of mum could do that to their child?
Is trauma/mental illness an ‘excuse’?
Lauryn is so fucked up she still loves her mum most in the world? You need therapy, child. How do you get past that?

Oh! I watched this a couple of days ago but no one else i know has!

I so need to rant about that bloody mother! The way she literally slowly physically wrapped herself round that poor girl like a vine as her hideous crime was being revealed by the police man !! It was horrible to watch.

The husband seeing it all clearly and saying he wanted her out of the house and away from him and his daughter but the police wandering off!

That poor girl. She's conditioned into thinking she needs her mother even though she knows what her mother did. Abused children still live their parents 😞

And now the mums out of prison and wants a relationship with her poor daughter again 😡

She's a manipulative evil witch of a woman. The way she talked about the things she had done and said was as if it was someone else had been doing them. Weird. She almost caused the suicide of the boyfriend and ruined the life of her daughter and that other girl chloe and yet she clearly expects lots of sympathy !!! 😡

Rant over, thank you OP 👍😊

I just watched this with my friend. I'd heard that it was 'one' of the mums but I totally did not expect it to be Kendra. Our jaws hit the floor! My only explanation is that maybe she did it so she could be the 'hero' to her daughter by comforting her, being the person to keep going to the police & school to find out what's happening etc. But how could she keep sending those vile messages when she can see how traumatised her daughter is? It made great tv but it was a hard watch & she is one messed up woman. Thank god Lauryn has such a close bond with her dad

I've almost finished watching it but I'm confused. Why were they interviewing the mum for the show? What was the reason for it? Were they suspecting her? Maybe I need to finish watching it first 😬

I don’t understand why she agreed to be in it.

Yeah finish watching it first! The interviews take place a couple of years after the messages

So she could say "oh poor me, it wasn't my fault" and play the victim, once again

I'll watch in the morning 😀I wondered if the mum had some kind of Munchausen by proxy?

Yes, my friend & I think that is the case, along with other factors

Finished it. God the mum is very "woe is me" isn't she? 🙄😮😡

As soon as someone in the show - I think her aunt - mentioned Munchausen By Proxy I was like YES. This is exactly what I think caused her to do this. Except instead of poisoning her daughter or causing her physical harm to get attention from medical staff and the local community, she hurt her through social media. Think of all the attention she received as a result, the police interviews, the FBI, caring friends, neighbours and school staff - not to mention how much her daughter must have relied on her for support. A very dangerous and disturbed woman, who should be kept miles and miles away from her child. Awful but fascinating at the same time.

I think at some point the School Superintendent mentions "Cyber Munchausen's by Proxy" as an explanation for Kendra's actions.

Yes, taking no responsibility whatsoever & loving the attention no doubt

They said this in the documentary- I think one of the police guys.

Yes that was in the bit I saw this morning.

@Laiste- agree with everything you say. I got my adult DD to watch it too - watched her reaction when they revealed it was Kendra!! Mouth just fell open!!
Lauren is going to need years of therapy, poor kid.

It was excuse after excuse!

Right at the very end though, after the reveal ect. there's a moment for final words from everyone and when it came to (i think) Chloe's dad or the boys dad? he said words to the effect of ''yeah in the middle of it all i did suspect Kendra...'' So someone was in the ball. Would have been interesting to have heard more about why - cos he was right. I guess he probs got shut down though as no one else would have dared think it!

J.F.C.

if mum didn’t send the first messages I’ll eat my favourite hat.

And - she’s gaga. Absolutely bloody gaga. And I’m saying this as someone who has had a breakdown and had mental health issues. How TF she is justifying this to herself as ‘trying to catch the person sending the messages’ - when it was her?!

Bloody evil.

She was crazy. I think it was very much about the boy - she sent messages to a different girl he started seeing who had absolutely nothing to do with her dd. Surely people she was close with knew something wasn’t right? She was pretending to go to work when she was unemployed as well.

She totally sent the first messages!!

A very disturbed woman. People like her never admit to doing anything wrong.

i know someone IRL (friend of a friend/acquaintance who I’ve knows for years) who did an awful thing - a criminal offence where she tried to say someone else committed the act - she went to prison for it.

But she has committed so many heinous acts tto friends of mine that she would never admit to. Basically a dangerous individual who you’d think was charming on first meeting. I think she also lost custody of her DC for a while.

There are a lot of weirdos out there.

She had excuse after excuse as to why she did it. We've all had trauma in our lives and don't send sick messages to our daughter. Also,how could she possibly know her daughter wouldn't end up killing herself? She's disgusting 😡

One thing I will say, she's either very brave or very stupid to actually take part in the programme. She's opened herself up for even more hate