WELCOME :wagon:lerner! Thanks for joining us and for your very first post, it gets easier!
Just regarding your observations. I think you'll find BREs SD doesn't actually live with him and was only visiting on the day of his arrest. I think the fact that SD has visited him in Hakea only once, that I have heard of anyway, says that part of her didn't believe it, couldn't possibly get her head around it (how could you, would be so unreal) and also please see my post about Rosie Batty earlier and disbelief. This man has been SDs father for many years and he's probably told her he'd never desert her when he took her to be his own child at the age of 4, I think, that's a bond and hold that would be very hard to turn your back on, the loyalty thing, and remember, innocent until proven guilty. She is no doubt convinced he will be proven innocent and that BRE has been framed somehow? And your third point about SD being "outed" by the press, totally agree. I was amazed at how all the family's names were put into the main stream media (and so quickly!), including an ex wife. Yes, this would be not only soul destroying, but as you say, has the ability to be career and life destroying. Very cruel and grubby of the press, grabbing for ratings! I think she'd need a friend now, a true friend, more than ever and there would be no way to "get inside her head" as her head would be all over the place at the moment and her emotions on a roller coaster, poor woman. And all the others in family would be the same. It seems a very nasty "means to an end" that the police have allowed to play out by not reigning in the media in some way, let's hope the "end" of all this justifies this whole tragic saga.
