Image being harassed online & then find out it was your own mother. What a failure of a parent & human being.

But… why? Why do this to your own kid? The article doesn’t seem to describe a motive, just a lot of crazy.

She reported herself to the police too lol

Some parents think that because it's their child they can do literally whatever they want.

If you study the nature of abusive parents, it's extremely clear to see the why.

It basically comes down to power and control, usually because the parent themselves is still emotionally immature, likely from the trauma and abuse they suffered.. that they are now passing down generationally.

Can confirm. My mother was one of those people. 🙄

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Mine too unfortunately. They would also take any sort of slight or perceived slight and punish me for it. Generally with a belt.

Probably she was secretly bullying to 'prove' to her child that something she directly bullies is justified, because look that other person also says xyz...

Seems incredibly exhausting though.

Mine still is, and I'm in my 40s.

Sad for you, fight it forever. Some people really just look like people, but they're not really. A lot can go wrong in the process of making a human being, from your long, long line of ancestors contributing their genetic material, some of it iffy, to some of the psychologically destructive processes that are sometimes involved in becoming an adult, to the raising of a child. Hope your own kids, if you have or are planning to, will receive good parenting due to your self-awareness. How all the subsystems that shape a person manage to result in the good ones we know is a miracle in itself.

Didn't she confess after they showed up at her home with warrants for her computer and phone?

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She went to the school and complained, but probably didn't expect them to get the police involved, and ESPECIALLY didn't expect the FBI to get involved. Lol

Does the fact she reported the catfishing--yet continued to catfish even though she knew the police were aggressively investigating--mean she wanted to get caught? Her poor daughter. It would've been hard enough if it was just someone she knew in passing.

One of the best ways to combat generational abuse and break the cycle is to seek therapy prior to having children of your own. It's important to get an outside perspective of what normal should be. So many people fail to realize that just because you're doing a better job than your parents, it doesn't mean you're doing a "good" job.

This isn’t rational behavior. Don’t look for logic.

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She harrassed the daughter's boyfriend too. Makes me wonder if she didn't like the kid or want her daughter dating him and if they were getting harrassed the two would break up. As someone else pointed out, maybe she is just an abusive asshole and enjoys seeing her children in emotional distress.

Some think they're doing a service as they think they're teaching them about the 'real world'.

Yeah, my dad was a bare knuckle guy. 95% of the time my older sister took the hits to protect us. I took the other 5%. It was tied to his binge drinking and what we suspect was bipolar disorder. Ironically, he didn't believe in corporal punishment. It was just random. My mom was diagnosed with severe borderline personality disorder and malignant narcissism. They were exhausting to take care of growing up. I was lucky, though. Over the years, my friends, their families, and many of my teachers became my family.

The article doesn't mention if this “mom” lost custody of her daughter, but for that child's sake, I hope she did.

Some people may have children but they are not parents; they lost the privilege to be call Mom/Dad.

I'm sorry to hear that. Ironically as well, I believe my dad felt the same way about corporal punishment. He didn't binge drink thankfully, he was married to his work. I have never once heard him say he is sorry about even the littlest thing, I've never heard him say he's wrong about even the littlest thing, and I have never heard him say there is anything he doesn't know or understand. I am not him.

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My mom used to make me smoke meth and pimped me out to men, so can confirm.

She thought I was her property

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There are places in the world where this is true... And it used to be everywhere.

That the parents don't own their children is a new idea.

Yeah, I'm increasingly of the opinion that the venn diagram of abusers and 'parents who hate therapy' is just a circle.

The abusers hate therapy because it makes them look at themselves, and the people who hate therapy often tend to become abuser because they didn't deal with their own trauma and so just perpetuate the generational abuse.

OMG I'm so sorry

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She and the parent of the other child were the ones who originally notified the school about this! Is this a new form of Munchausens by proxy?

How is your sister doing now?

EXACTLY what I was thinking!

A couple of things in the article make it sound like she was trying to pretend that she was one of their classmates -- the official's remark about how it gradually became clear that the messages weren't being sent by a child despite the references makes it sound like the mom was either pretending to be anonymous classmate or impersonating someone. As for why, who knows. Probably trying to break her daughter and the boyfriend up but for what reason there's no way to know.

I’d like to show this to my sister who believes all women would be great moms if given the support from society. It wouldn’t do any good though.

Was never able to be myself or have any of my own opinions or thoughts. I slammed my door once and she called the police on me 😂😂

Whenever I think of my mom, I try to remind myself “at least she didn’t pimp me out for drugs.” Really she’s not a bad person, mostly we just have nothing at all in common.

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Thankfully the prison sentences for the crime are so long that the daughter may be able to never see her mother again (which I imagine she would like).

She was the girls basketball coach at her daughters school. She probably was a "mean girl" when she was in school and since she worked there, she still thought she was a teen and could be a mean girl.

Similar to Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy.

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There's literally a TLC show called catfished my daughter.

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She had apps masking her location. She thought she was too smart to get caught. Stay stupid criminals.

Not only is she a moron in general for doing this, but not realizing the cops can easily subpoena records and track IPs with some easily filed paperwork.

Of course realizing this meant she'd have to have brain cells to begin with.

I like that they said they realized the messages weren't being sent from a teenager. Insert How Do You Do Fellow Kids meme lmao.

My thought on this is since she was also harassing her daughter’s boyfriend, the boyfriend’s parents got involved and she was forced to play along hoping she wouldn’t get caught. Of course she’s an idiot and the search warrants of the social media accounts and phone records lead to her.

Can't agree more. It's hard to learn to start liking yourself, but it's an absolute prerequisite to being able to like others. The rewards are so well worth it, though.