07-14-2014, 05:52 PM
(07-14-2014, 09:49 AM)crash Wrote: I struggle to believe that someone could make me that scared that I 1) Would not die trying to stop them killing my child 2) Make me complicit with the murder by accompanying them to a supermarket to buy equipment to bury said child and 3) Not be screaming from the rooftops immediately the murder was committed.
Given, I've never been a 17 year old mother, but I'd like to think my behaviour would have been as I have stated as a 17 year old father. I think she got a big dose of the guilts and is trying to save her ass..
I've never been a 17 year-old mother either, but I feel the same way.
Botello wasn't being held at gunpoint, she was in a very public place immediately after the murder and could have gotten help right then -- without having to assist the killer hide his crimes and bury her baby's badly beaten corpse. I can't see any innocent person at any age making the choice she made.
I suspect that Botello was more worried about protecting and keeping her boyfriend of 4 months than about justice and doing right by her dead daughter -- until they got caught and CYA set in.
I also agree with Cutz that the charges she's currently facing are a gift. I wish she was facing hard time, but LE may be going easy on her because they need her to testify against Beard in order to put him away for life or on death row (he's as low as they come and deserves the max).