- Joined
- Feb 9, 2013
To clarify this point, some of us pointed out that she was absolutely faking elements of her earlier dementia / senility symptoms. There was one video she made to beg for money where, afterwards, cwc kept the camera rolling and she immediately snapped out of the retard routine when she thought Chris was done filming.I dunno. I always thought the senile act from Barb was that - an act to grift more money off weens.
That being said, she totally could've become much more feeble minded since then and genuinely lost whatever faculties she used to have.
We don't really know.
She could be still faking it or she could be legitimately helpless (and now no one believes her, which would be poetic justice).
It's kind of like old spinsters who are so miserable to be around that no one can stand them but their cats. They end up dying alone and those same cats end up eating their faces.Yeah people are either forgetting or deliberately ignoring that Barb had been coercing and guilting Chris into sleeping in the same bed as her and outright cuddling with her in the years immediately after Bob's death, and that Chris had expressed his discomfort with this. I can't imagine that this didn't mess with his already messed up sense of boundaries. I'm also not that convinced of Barb's alleged senility and "being completely unaware," considering her past schemes and the fact that she's apparently been living on her own for the past two years. If she legitimately is out of her mind, then what happened is terrible, but otherwise this was her getting bit by the beast that she created. Furthermore, I'm not totally convinced that these weren't consensual interactions.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not remotely justifying what Chris did nor am I blaming the victim.
But it's fair to keep in mind that Barb is a total shithead herself.
The way that's written, it sounds like it's effectively a statutory rape crime though.It can be. It would depend on whether Barb were deemed by the court* physically helpless or mentally incapacitated (if not, you're not required to register until you've had a second conviction):
https://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/statutes.html
From the above (sorry for stupid formatting/ I c&p from the table at the cited site):
The following list contains the specific section of the Code of Virginia and the literal offense for which registration as a Sex Offender is required.
A SECOND or subsequent conviction, where the individual was at liberty between such convictions, and where the victim is a minor or is physically helpless or mentally incapacitated as defined in §18.2-67.10, a violation or attempted violation of:
Adultery & Fornication by Person Forbidden to Marry: Incest. 18.2-366
OR
Where the victim is a minor or is physically helpless or mentally incapacitated as defined in §18.2-67.10, a violation or attempted violation of:
Adultery & Fornication by Person Forbidden to Marry: Incest 18.3-366
*for purposes of registry requirements, I believe preponderance-standard analysis of physical helplessness or mental incapacity is required of the court even if incapacity was not alleged as part of the charges.
But that's all moot now.