excuse my brain dump…
After reading the notes, I feel like all this discussion around what can only be described as an incredibly vulnerable, mentally unwell woman who has effectively lost both her children under traumatic circumstances, is not what I signed up for.
I was interested when I thought that this was a cut and dry scammer situation. But people are now gleefully discussing the lack of dead babies on Ancestry and sharing private mental health / custody court notes as entertainment/clout. I think it’s pretty obvious that this poor woman, regardless of her scams, has experienced every parent’s worst nightmare and has resulting severe mental health issues driving her to act like this.
It’s also very possible that she has disassociated from her ‘former self’ due to the trauma of losing her child, to the extent, that she truly believes Samantha is a different person.
I believe she had a baby that died because she’s NEVER mentioned it. Her current life is a fabrication which she is at ease discussing and it probably serves as a distraction from losing a 4 month baby. She would have got plenty of attention and possibly money if she’d discussed her baby and her older child on TT, but she didn’t once mention them probably because it was real, triggering and traumatising.
It’s interesting that she sought support and validation from strangers during the HD/Airbnb situation as maybe she didn’t get support when she experienced trauma of losing her baby. The timeline of her losing a baby, the surrogacy scam, then going ‘missing’ and moving to another country after cutting off her family - she isolated herself away from the people who should be supporting her. I do believe that she enjoyed helping people and supporting them too.
It’s also interesting to me that after losing a baby, her first scam involved pregnancy. Maybe she just wanted to be pregnant and have a baby again. Not excusing it obviously, but she clearly wasnt in her right mind and/or heavily medicated.
After reading those notes, I just feel like this is potentially something on a whole other level that I don’t understand and I just want her to get help. I also want those she scammed to be supported too and get refunded. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
