I couldn't agree more. The fact that she bawled her eyes out honestly says it all. Even she knows it was no excuse. Had it been excusable, she would have woken up feeling righteous, not an immense guilt that weighed her down so much she could do nothing but ball her eyes out.
I'm a mom myself and no matter what, I would never test my kid like that! I'm poor an pretty severely physically disabled and fled with my kid and the clothes on my back, from his biological sperm donor. So I may not have dealt with deaths as close as hers (although since, friends and my grandparents followed by my mom from cancer, passed away in that time. I still could NEVER treat my beloved baby (who's 14 now btw) anywhere near how she treated him. I know that I'm mom and biologically she's just aunt, but my baby's step dad isn't, and he not only stayed in my life (we were bffs before I left me ex and started dating s month later because we meet first and had secretly liked eachother for years but that point) but stepped up and became dad right away. My kids has been calling him dad the entire time, he started doing so without our pushing. We never looked back.
i mean she admit that what she did was wrong. but again baby blues is a thing moreso Judith was not even her mother and with all that happening in her life, at very least she did raise Luca and didn't neglect him at all, she just can't provide the love Luca's need and given her situation it's kinda expected.
Also, i think people simplify human nature a bit too much nowadays, where everything only seen as black and white, while human and everything happens in this life is not just black and white, human made mistake doesn't mean you must either agree with their motives or take no excuse at all. It's kinda annoying whenever i see something just being labeled as Green or red flag.
I get the ppl saying Judith did nothing wrong but ngl I kinda disagree. Like smth can be understandable but not justifiable, meaning we can empathize with Judith and what led to her actions, but calling it justifiable or valid is a little much? Especially to Luca, the child who was abused and neglected. Just saying you can understand and analyze why someone did smth without glossing over the damage they inflicted on others. ( ̄∇ ̄")