Why mum who catfished her personal daughter in sickening ordeal agreed to look in Netflix collection

Quite a lot of Netflix viewers who tuned into Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish could not consider Kendra Licari truly appeared in it.

Now, the documentary’s director, Skye Borgman, has revealed how she managed to persuade the mum to share her aspect of the stunning story with the world.

Two years after her daughter Lauryn’s ordeal started in October 2020, Licari was unmasked because the tormentor who had been sending {the teenager} hundreds of threatening and abusive textual content messages.

She cruelly branded her personal little one ‘nugatory’ and ‘the ugliest individual I’ve ever seen’, whereas additionally sending her harrowing warnings akin to ‘we are going to make on a regular basis depressing’ and ‘end your self or we are going to’.

Licari initially managed to idiot police, fellow mother and father and Lauryn’s faculty into pondering that she had no concept who could possibly be cyberbullying her daughter and her then-boyfriend, Owen.



However it later emerged that the previous faculty basketball coach, 45, was the one who had been harassing the pair all alongside.

The FBI traced the mercilessly insulting messages and vile loss of life threats again to Licari and Netflix viewers acquired to see the second the mum was confronted with the reality.

Police bodycam footage proven in Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish captured the second Lauryn realised her personal mom had been sending her the horrible messages on-line.

Her horrified husband, Shawn, then additionally found that his spouse had been mendacity to him for years about their funds and her employment standing.

In the end, Licari was arrested in December 2022 and later pleaded responsible to 2 counts of stalking a minor. She was sentenced to spend between 19 months and 5 years behind bars for her crimes.

Isabella County prosecutor David Barberi stated the case was each ‘weird and nearly laborious to consider’, whereas evaluating the mom’s actions to ‘cyber Munchausen’s syndrome’, in accordance to WKRC.

Decide Mark Duthie, who presided over Licari’s case, shared the same sentiment whereas sentencing the disgraced mum, saying: “I can’t think about any guardian saying such horrible issues to her personal daughter.”

“It is a actually horrible case,” he stated, as per The Morning Solar. “It’s the type of case that makes me glad that on the finish of my time period, I’m retiring.”

Licari denied sending the unique messages to Lauryn and her ex Owen, claiming she solely started doing so 11 months after they first started within the hopes of figuring out the cyberbully herself.

She was launched on parole in August final 12 months and can stay underneath supervision till February 2026, the Michigan Division of Corrections stated.

Licari is at the moment banned from seeing her daughter, though she spoke of her want to construct a ‘wholesome relationship’ with Lauryn sooner or later within the Netflix doc.

To place it bluntly, nearly all of viewers could not consider that the mom had the brass neck to look in Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish to debate the net of lies she weaved.

One individual stated in a submit on Reddit: “Why even give her the platform to inform ‘her aspect of the story’? F**ked up.”

One other wrote: “I agree she shouldn’t have been given this platform. She didn’t even say a single factor that makes a lick of sense in her personal defence anyway.”

Borgman, the director behind the documentary, revealed that persuading Licari to look in Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish was a ‘lengthy course of’.

Most of it was already filmed by the point the mum agreed to be interviewed, and Borgman explaining why she believes Licari ultimately stated sure to answering some questions.

“That was interesting to her, [to] sit down and inform her story from her perspective and that Lauryn [could] see her do this,” Borgman told Netflix’s Tudum. “She wished to do it, I believe, for her daughter.”

Regardless of believing that Licari is determined to earn her kid’s forgiveness, Borgman stated she thinks the harm may be too nice for the mom and daughter to get well from.

She continued: “I imply, will they’ve a relationship? Will they get by means of this? I don’t know. There’ll most likely be some type of relationship. Will it’s the identical? Completely not. There’s no method it may be the identical.”

Borgman stated she is not certain whether or not Licari herself ‘actually is aware of why she did it’, except for the alleged trauma she suffered as a youngster.

“She does point out within the documentary an assault that occurred [to her] when she was proper round Lauryn’s age,” the director continued.

“She talks about how scary that was for her to see her solely little one, her little woman, rising up, and that’s what she actually pertains to and that’s what she believes led her to sending these textual content messages and attempting to maintain Lauryn shut.”

Lauryn is now 18 years outdated and lives along with her father Shawn – who has full custody of her – in Michigan.