It takes a lot to subdue a thirteen years old and abuse her continuously to the point of losing language and even severe disorders in all her abilities to survive. The mother must have been so assertive and abusive to the point of extremity: no mercy for her is warranted whatsoever. She is by all accounts a danger to society; smart enough to be a lawyer, disturbed, twisted enough to destroy the lives of her own children and use her vocation to prevent any attempt from the father to even communicate with his daughter and perhaps ensure a more acceptable existence for his own offsprings.
The blame lies almost entirely on her shoulders. Even if those children were to be thrown right into the middle of a 19th century Paris they'd have a better chance of growing up surviving and functioning on their own.
But to discard the authorities from blame is to make another mistake. Child custody laws and cases are far, far too biased for the women to the point of absurdity. Fathers often have to pay more than half their paycheck to the women with limited-to-no opportunity to communicate with their own offsprings. And the authorities' inaction despite continuous protests from various parties has been one of the main reasons that the catastrophe has been prolonged to such an irrevocable point.
Three lives destroyed there out of sheer neglect. I hope there will be repercussions and force for reform after this, and that some here in the USA take the case into consideration: with our own divorce rates (what an absurdity: it makes me rather sick whenever I hear a teenage girl talking about marriage, in fact, when I think that probably more than half of them, if committed, would soon enter divorce...) the probability for these kinds of cases increase dramatically.
Even then, I must say I'm interested in the scientific aspect of how the children managed to create their own language, the process they somehow learned it, and if the mother actually knows the language or not, etc. In fact, if I am to make a blind jump -- and it is a blind jump; I never heard the "form of singing-like German" in question -- I'd suspect it's even influenced by the sound of mice, which makes it even more horrific.
I'd hate to be a father.
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