Brian Coulter Finally Sentenced For Horrific Child Murder

This judge spoke for me when she said she was absolutely haunted by the injuries inflicted on these children.

As a survivor of two narcissistic parents, this case really got to me.  The sheer brutality and callousness of these two, their pure disregard for the hell they put those boys through, staggers the imagination.  Whatever slovenly, heinous rom-com they imagined they were living in, they believed it justified having those children live the way they were living.  I can't even bring myself to detail it in this blog.  I die inside every time I think about what they endured.

Because these two "people," this failure and the mother of the children, just went about their business day in and day out, while the boys lived in a sort of indescribable torment that one of them didn't survive.  Every day for those kids was an endurance challenge that few adults could have managed, seriously.  The physical stress alone is unimaginable, much less the psychological anguish they were put through.

Narcissism and Cluster B personality disorders are about being a coward, one who fears showing up in life.  The kind of hero who tattoos "warrior" on his neck and then beats an autistic child to death.  Someone who feels so incredibly inadequate that they instead build a fake persona and decide to live inside of there.  And in order to do that, it requires human sacrifices, the destruction of real, living, humans. 

And very often it's too much work to overtake other adults, because they're not really that smart or skilled.  So they do their own "build a bear" thing, like Gloria Williams and my mom, by pushing them out.  They can create their own captive audience of people to crap on and place themselves above, simply by humping dirty dogs like Brian Coulter.

These two were running a mini concentration camp for Gloria's children.  Not by design.  That's just how it worked out for them, how many shits Gloria had left over at the end of each day.  Her mother tried to take custody of Kendrick and care for him.  She saw this coming.  But Gloria wouldn't have it.  She built her own little punching bear fair and square, she insisted on keeping him so she could abandon his corpse.

So yeah, I wish I could feel great for the other three.  At least they do have a loving grandmother and Gloria's sisters seem like they might be okay, IDK.  But I know that the Turpin kids went on to get re-abused.  God help the Franke kids.  It's such an uphill battle even if they were to go somewhere really, really good. And I have so little faith in wherever they will land.

But after all that they went through, I'm not sure people can even imagine their ordeals really.  And then Brian had the audacity to go to actual trial.  He's so utterly remorseless for the harm he's already caused them, that he dragged them through America's adversarial legal process, as if there were some planet on which he might be acquitted.  There's no ordeal he wouldn't put them through, because he still DGAF.

I'm glad there were no  victim impact statements.  He doesn't deserve the opportunity to ever ignore them again.