I think it was the idea that some mother could be so inherently evil that she’d kill her daughter, just so she could go party.
I think that was the hook.
Her mother should have applied for custody of the child.
I think to these people it’s nothing more than a reality show or a cop show like CSI. There’s little that’s realistic about them, but they’re made to feel part of the action.
The worst of them become legal sages among their group and pontificate without ever having been part of any of these processes (investigation, indictment, arrest, trial, finding (guilty or not guilty), sentencing/dismissal and incarceration.
Personally, I don’t find them all that much dumber than the so-called police and legal experts the media trot out to explain things to us.