“It’s not easy talking about it.”
You’re right. But it sure is if it never happened, (Or if you were a consenting member to the crime.) and you’re trying to prey on people’s emotions.
You realize that sometimes it works to put her in a box – that’s how she viewed chinuch and didn’t know any better.
And sometimes it works for her to talk about heresay stories – i.e. murder… (only she was in the box. Her husband wasn’t)
You’re involved in special field of work and you tend to sympathize with otd teens that crosses your path as a victim and a nebach and they need help. While that is commendable it will only come to hurt you if you don’t evaluate the backrounds and personalities of people to make sure they are legit. It is naive to think that everyone going off and passing on the blame is saying the complete truth.
If you read the book and tried to read into her as a person you would realize that there is no person. There are a few personalities and whichever one causes the most sensationalism gets used.