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Here, I'll take this up. The article also quotes text messages between them wherein he admits he injected her with ketamine himself while she was asleep.
You are monstrous for defending this monster.
This message? That's not what this says.
If I asked someone to give me ketamine, and they did, I would go to sleep. If I woke up and wondered where they were, it would be nice of them to have left me a message saying they'd just gone to get changed and would come back.
OTOH if someone gave me ketamime while I was asleep in order to control me somehow, they probably wouldn't leave me a message telling me they had done so.
I’m not defending HIM, I’m criticizing the article for trying to paint a different picture. He’s definitely abusing drugs, and helping her abuse drugs. He’s definitely guilty of supplying, and probably assisted with the dose that killed her.
But, he’s not a child molester, as the article suggests. And, he’s not “grooming” her. The mother sure didn’t complain when he took both of them on vacations.
He’s just a really irresponsible person who knows better.
You downplayed his actions with the drugs as "irresponsible" (earlier and again now) and only talked about him making drugs available to her rather than forcefully injecting them when she couldn't consent.
He predated on a very young patient. Whether or not the mother's claims about his comments are true, he is clearly a manipulative monster.
The article talks both about the evidence and the mother's statements. You look really bad here.
You telling me that I look bad to you doesn’t mean anything to me. There is nothing that anyone can say that can make me feel bad.
What other word would you use besides irresponsible? That seems to be the right word. His irresponsible actions led to her dying. That’s not downplaying anything.
I don’t consider 23 to be very young.
The mother seemed perfectly fine with all of this when it was benefiting her.
Ah. So you're basically an edgy 14-year-old. Good luck with the growing up thing. Try to stop victim blaming someday.
Not what’s happening.
You're claiming the article is saying something by quoting her relatives. Weird.
"How dare them spin this with their interviews of the victim's family!"
She loved his money too. Sold her daughter for it.
Yikes