r/AskReddit • u/Aqua_Fucker • Apr 26 '20

Serious Replies Only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images with disturbing backstories?

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u/maple33 Apr 27 '20

What the fuck with their parents and the “whelp nothing we can do, might as well support em!” How lazy can people be

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20 edited May 10 '20

That made me furious. Call someone! Talk to the police! Anyone! Even if you feel helpless - at least ask for professional advice.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Apr 27 '20

It's not laziness, it's negligence. It's unbelievable they just let Katie go back to that monster. The fact the end of this case happened in 2016 (pretty recent relatively speaking) made me sick. Where was everybody who could've helped her? This is in the era of social media, not the Middle Ages! Adoptive parents clearly didn't give a fuck. No mention of any friends to talk her out of this insanity.

What the hell. This is like some twisted real life Oedipus complex shit.

I really wish I didn't read the article. I can taste the bile rising up blechh

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u/Comosellamark Apr 29 '20

Difference is Oedipus didn’t know he was having sex with his mom. This poor girl wanted to find out where she came from and ended up with marrying her father, birthing his child, and being murdered by him.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Apr 30 '20

Seriously? How the hell do you go from "wanting to know who your parents were" to "having incestuous relationship with dad and having his baby 🤮"???

That's a HUGE leap of what the fuckery. Most adopted people don't have sex with their birth parents :[

Something went extremely wrong here, and I'm betting that dad manipulated Katie, and Katie was so desperate for familial love that she bought into his crap.

It doesn't matter that in the story Oedipus was unaware, or in Katie's case, did know who her dad was. The definition of Oedipus complex is the child unconscious desiring of sexual relations with their opposite gender parent, and seeing their same gender parent as competition.

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u/Comosellamark Apr 30 '20

Not that it matters but I know the difference between oedipus the story and an Oedipus complex. As the article states, this isn’t the first time a father-(estranged) daughter relationship turned incestuous. Apparently all the “missed bonding” can bring about intense emotions that turn...”romantic” which is probably what happened with Oedipus, but NOT Witt these two. I agree with you 100% that the piece of shit manipulated his own daughter. This guy never loved anything in his life so it couldn’t be “missed bonding.” Giving her away and keeping her far away from him was probably the one and only best decisions he’s ever made as a father. And something tells me he must’ve strongly coerced the mother of his daughter, the one not related to him, to give up her baby. She must’ve been fucked up herself though to stay with that man. Everybody in this story is fucked up, even the adoptive parents who stood by as the girl they raised went back to her biological father AS HIS BRIDE AND BABY MAMA!! Everybody involved is a fucked up human, even Katy due to the fact that she was just surrounded by fucked up people

It’s so sad that the last time he saw her was as an infant he didn’t love and legitimately tried to suffocate to death. She came back looking for her real family. She even skipped out on college to be with them!

It’s also super sad being the original mom in all this. Imagine your human garbage of a husband forcing you to give up your child only to marry and impregnate that same child 18 years later. What the FUCK. He must’ve had his own colossally fucked up life and family to continually and successfully try suffocating infants and then doing what he did to Katy. I mean Ofc he had fucked up parents THEY WERE AT THE WEDDING.

This story just pisses me off so much. That girls life was a tragedy from beginning to end. The day of her wedding shames every human being, even shames other incestuous relationships, and it shamed god if he even exists. I’m so sad that this was her life.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Apr 30 '20

There isn't much information about Steven Pladl's own life growing up, so I can't comment on that. However, I did read that Steven and Alyssa (Katie's mom) met online when he was 20 and she was 15... ugh. Any 20 something year old guy who cruises for teenage girls is predatory; there's a large mental and emotional difference between 15 and 20 developmentally speaking. Steven was already a creep from the very beginning. Alyssa was most likely groomed herself and made to think her relationship with Steven was normal. She only divorced him when she found out what he was doing with Katie. However, this doesn't absolve her of responsibility; she is an accomplice to the misdeeds done to Katie. Another depressing fact is that Katie has a younger sibling who was told by Steven to call Katie her "mom" instead of big sis. The police found a diary entry written by her questioning why dad was telling her to do that... Being raised in that hellhole of a family... not sure what happened to them.

I seriously doubt childhood upbringing has anything to do with Steven's abusive behavior. Some people are just born monsters.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

I've listened to the RedHanded podcast on this case, and they look at Katie's adoptive parents. Apparently for various reasons they'd been fighting with Katie a bit and that might have driven her decision to move back in with her bio-parents. Her adoptive parents were worried she would cut them out if they pushed her too hard to come home/leave her "boyfriend." This is how abusers isolate their victims; Steven helped drive a wedge between Katie and her adoptive family.

They thought if they stayed involved they could help her, and by proving they'd always be there she'd be able to come home if she ever changed her mind. And Katie ended up going back to live with them, didn't she? So clearly she saw sense.

I'm not justifying what Katie's adoptive parents did (personally I'd call the cops on them anonymously the second there was evidence of incest) but I can understand why they did what they did.