It's all their fault.

Sometimes, you just have to wonder what planet people have been living on. I'm sure all of you remember the case of the girl in the closet. Little Lauren was about eight-years-old when she was found in her mother and step-father's home in Hutchins, Texas. The home was filthy, but even filthier was the small bedroom closet where Lauren spent her life. She was not allowed to eat, to come out and play with the other children, or even to come out to go to the bathroom.

Lauren's mother, Barbara Atkinson, had initially given Lauren up for adoption when she was born. The Kavanaugh's took the child as their own. But Barbara changed her mind, and some idiot judge gave the child back to Barbara despite evidence that she was abusive to the infant. And poor little Lauren spent the next six years in a literal hell.

We get that Barbara and her husband are less than human. What I don't get is Barbara's mother, Doris Calhoun. This woman is supposedly intelligent, but it's certainly not evident in what she says. You see, the whole reason that Barbara and her husband treated Lauren the way they did wasn't because they were sadistic and wicked. It was the Kavanaugh's fault. Yes, that's right -- the loving parents who did not even see Lauren from the time she was 20 months old until she was rescued at the age of eight. She says the Kavanaughs "broke the parent-child relationship, so it never was established strongly like it should have been. That's what happened between Lauren and Barbie."

If that woman really believes that, she's as dangerous as her evil daughter, and she needs to be locked up right beside her.

"Bundle of joy to burden of sorrow." The Dallas Morning News; October 21, 2013; p. 7A.