she was selfish!
How could she not tell her husband and family her motives...didnt she know they would go through hell?
shareThe very fact that they turned off on her and left her for dead compounded her drama. Not only did she lose her child, herself, but also, everyone she knew and her family. And nobody cared, or came to see her, when she needed it the absolute most. They presumed she was a killer, even though absolutely everything in her character pointed otherwise (and she wanted it, which is why she told the guy that Lea was the one who finally came to visit her, years later).
shareThe death of her child DESTROYED her. She didn't care about anything or anyone. I'm sure the welfare of her parents was the last thing on her mind.
shareIs that an excuse for keeping the boy's father from him?
Doesn't work for me. This is not a character to care about. Her husband lost a child too.
"The very fact that they turned off on her and left her for dead compounded her drama. Not only did she lose her child, herself, but also, everyone she knew and her family."
Her sister, Lea, didn't do that. Don't you remember the notebook Juliette found? In it, her then teen-aged sister (I think, I know Lea was quite young) marked off every day in her diary how long it'd been since she'd seen Juliette. Lea was still young and under her mother's thumb at the time of Juliett's trial and imprisonment but she never forgot her big sister. She missed her and grieved for her.