The medical records...
So...if the medical records clearly showed that the baby was beaten to death, how the hell did the investigation end up closing with a decision that it was an accident? I mean, even if child abuse was considered a "family matter" back in those years, I'm sure an obvious child murder/killing wasn't?
And may I just say that all three of them should've been hung or in the least sentenced to life in prison. I mean, Jolene, the father and the mother. After all, the biological parents were just as much guilty. They knew their kids were being beaten and tortured yet did nothing, and they knew that their youngest was murdered but protected the murderer.
In fact I think the real parents were sicker and more evil than Jolene. She "only" beat, tortured and murdered/killed someone else's child(ren) but the buological parents did so to their own children by letting Jolene freely do it and then protecting her.
So I see the biological parents as the real villains of the story. Does anyone know if they ever received any punishment in the real events?
There are movies which endings make me weep, or some scene in them, as I'm a sensitive guy. But this is the only movie in the world I've seen so far that had me cry a river just about all through the movie. This is just too painful to watch and listen. As if a child murder wasn't enough, did the biological parents have to be that *beep* evil too?
These are the kind of stories that makes you want to believe in the afterlife, in something after death, in a place of peace. It's unthinkable to be born, suffer thoroughly and deeply all your life and then just die and stop existing. And believing in something after death is, fortunately, quite easy to me, because of the fact we all have a soul (or whatever you want to call it.) And because I don't see how anything could be born from nothingness as nothingness would mean there's nothing to be born. So, a sooul has to come from somewhere when it enters a body. So, common sense would say it's also going somewhere when it departs from the body. That somewhere may be where the soul really belongs and thsu be a place of peace.
But then, if there was nothing after death, it would serve the same purpose as a place of peace. I guess. But somehow still the last mentioned is a more comforting idea. :D Especially if combined to the hope of seeing your loved ones again, on some level of consciousness, in some form. To me, the source of life is one of the most fascinating mysteries in the world, yet I hope I don't have to find it out until I'm a very old man.
And now I got off-topic.