Miz, I was watching the beginning of the CTV showing of Damon's testimony (I think a lot of this is being shown on CTV for the first time at least on the East Coast), and boy, it's bad, though we knew it had to be there. Once he was on the stand and couldn't ignore a direct question any more, out it came. Anyway, I read the middle of your post, without knowing it was yours, and found myself just nodding in agreement,
I also do not understand the people who say, "they didn't 'deserve' to lose their daughter." Actually, they did. . . . It's the daughter, though, that didn't deserve the life she had, nor the death she suffered.
So true. Danielle herself did not deserve what happened.
"Danielle herself did not deserve what happened."This is the one thought we should all keep as we watch what goes on in this trial. I was actually surprised that this testimony was allowed--I had thought the judge would not allow it. I'm glad he did. Someone--is it John Jamieson?--has wisely said, what's worse, someone looking at pornography, or someone living it? I would only add--and living it with children present to watch. We can pray it was only watching, but the vDs are so depraved, I would not say that for certain.
Lurking but also had to pipe up: what you, miz, and doughty have all said is correct, and consider this: the parents turned their home into a college fraternity not a stable child rearing environment. I went to a fraternity party once where a a gang bang took place on some poor drunk freshman girl, I never knew it was happening because there was so much commotion. How could mr. vd possibly be counted on to know and do the normal dad thing when he lived like a frat rat, and a miscreant one at that. V's wife.