AMC: Tuesday

[EricaKane70]

They go way more into detail than that, and thats not even the icing on the cake.

[dragonflies]

LMFAO it does make me laugh when someone brings up what Erica has done as a way to make Babe's sin seem somehow better.

Erica has paid and then some for what she did to Maria. Maria NEVER forgave her, nor did they ever become best friends.

Babe keeps doing the same crap over and over. She was all set to take off with Little A again, just a few months back.

She learned NOTHING from what she did to Bianca

[Kylie]

The difference is that Erica never pretended that she was sorry. She never pretended that she was Maria's best friend. She never flunced around town acting like she was martyr who was the victim in everything. She gave Maddie back. She went to jail. She did her time.

Babe cried. Babe blamed everyone but herself. Babe let her mother and father take the fall and was just like, " Oh poor me, they took Little A from me." She didn't even believe she deserved to lose her child. After everything she did, she still believed she deserved to be treated like she was innocent and merely a victim of time and circumstance, oh and big bad JR. Babe tried to make is seem like she'd just merely forget to give Miranda back. She knowingly, willingly and wantingly tortured Bianca with her own child. Bianca cried on Babe's shoulder as she grieved Miranda, and Babe, Babe soothed her all the awhile tucking Miranda into bed at night.

There is no excuse for keeping a child from it's mother, no. But there is a big difference in the way it was done with Erica and Babe.

[Skin]

Erica paid? On what show? She went to jail for maybe three months and then she was forgiven by Edmund for stealing Maddie from Maria. After that Edmuind and Erica were very close friends and confided in one another time and time again. It was as if Erica never stole his child. Moreover Erica never faced any social consequences for stealing Maddie. She was never chewed out for what she did to Maria. She was still hailed as the queen of Pine Valley and no one was disgusted with what she did. She was still considered the pillar of society. Even Erica has said that her jail time for what she did to Maria was "cushy" and even said as much to Krystal. She bragged about how much the jail gaurds loved her and made sure she was never uncomfortable. She had admires while she was in prision and faced absolutely none of the things Krystal or Di had to face in prision.

Erica paid? How. She gained everything after she went to jail. She got her daughter back. She got full custody of Bianca and Bianca loved her more then anything. Jack stood by her while she faced her jail sentence and she even got Enchantment back. Erica had the support of her community, her friends, her lover and her child and she even gained back Enchantment back and took it away from Hayley, after she was finished that joke of a jail sentence. Erica paid? Not likely. Especially considering Maria had maybe two months to hold baby Maddie before she was killed by that plane crash.

Moving on to the part of your post that says Maria and Erica were never friends. I have to disagree with that. Seeing as Maria was one of the first people to comfort and support Erica when Erica found out Bianca was raped by Micheal Cambius. The sheer fact that Erica walked in and out of Wildwind like it was her own personal home contest the fact that Maria and Erica were never friendly. Hell Maria even let Erica in her own home and near her children during Edmunds funeral and even sat silient as Erica went on one of her hypocritical tirades about how Maria was so horriable for being unfaithful to Edmund. Maria constantly tolerated Erica and was a doormat and was a living saint to even let Erica near her home let alone near her children. Maria also testified at Erica's court trial. So their are more parralells to the story then you think.

Your right Erica never pretended during the 5 months she took Maddie that she was sorry. She spitefully flaunted Maddie/Sonya under Maria's noise and constantly taunted Maria about the fact that she lost her child and she even said behind closed doors that Maria deserved the pain that she was in because Maria slept with her Dimitri. Erica wanted Maria in pain and wanted to cause her the greatest heart ache. Erica did it all with a sociopathic smile on her face. Babe atleast had the tact to feel sorry. Erica felt that Maria deserved her pain and deserved to have her child kept from her over revenge over Dimitri. Babe wasn't like that. Babe kept Miranda because her baby died. Babe was a victim of Paul Cramer. Paul stole her son and told her that he died and when it proved to be to difficult to tell JR that same lie her made up another and said Bianca's baby died. Paul was the one who set it all into motion. Babe wasn't the one to kidnap Miranda. It was all Paul's influence and it was Paul who set it up. Babe held on to Miranda because she couldn't deal with losing Little Adam and having her family torn apart. That is a hell of a better reason then getting back at a woman because she slept with your husband.

Babe lost her child. Which was the ultimate price of her deal in the Babyswap. Babe was an outcast for a year and she didn't get custody of her son back until March of 2006. Erica went to a cushy jail cell and was out after 3 months. After Erica stole Maddie all she did was gain, gain gain. Babe lost, lost, lost. By comparision I still think Babe paid more then Erica did.