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(NewsNation) — The authoritative highlighted successful Netflix's caller documentary, "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish," says it's a "million-dollar question" arsenic to wherefore Kendra Licari cyberbullied her ain girl and her boyfriend.
"I don't deliberation anybody ever truly is going to cognize wherefore she did this," David Barberi told "Banfield" connected Monday.
"I deliberation that the mentation that we each have, that we thin connected anyways, is that it was benignant of erstwhile this started to origin harm to her daughter. I deliberation her girl looked to her for comfort, and implicit the people of that narration and this harassment, I deliberation that she benignant of fed connected that."
Kendra Licari began sending assertive texts to her daughter, Lauryn, and Lauryn’s boyfriend, Owen McKenny, successful the autumn of 2020 to effort to interruption them up.
A bulk of the messages were highly crude and repeatedly told Lauryn Licari that she wasn’t fulfilling McKenny sexually. Sometimes they ranged from 40 to 50 messages a day. The elder Licari acknowledged that her behaviour was a effect of erstwhile trauma that she hadn’t processed aft she was raped astatine property 17.
Licari was arrested successful 2022. She was sentenced to 19 months successful situation arsenic a effect successful March 2023.
Documentary didn't seizure effect connected families involved: Prosecutor
Despite apologizing successful court, Barberi feels that Licari's words fell connected deaf ears for the families that were progressive and the wide harm she caused them.
"Tt's truly hard to seizure that successful an hr and a fractional erstwhile these families dealt with this for implicit a year," Barberi said. "This trauma was going on, this harassment, this changeless graphic substance messages that were being received by each of these individuals."
Barberi specifically discussed Owen McKenny and his family, describing however overmuch symptom and anguish they went done during the ordeal.
McKenny besides received nonstop texts from Kendra Licari for implicit 2 years.
"You tin lone ideate what it would beryllium similar to beryllium his parent and his household having to ticker their lad woody with this implicit a twelvemonth of battling this successful schoolhouse and with friends and trying to fig retired wherever it was coming from, you know?" Barberi noted.
