Interesting observations. He thinks the wife will blame the husband and the husband will say the claims of abuse are exaggerated, that there was no real abuse. He probably knows what he's talking about, based on past experience.
I do have one quibble. He assumes the parents were isolated, had no friends, developed this abusive cult on their own. I disagree. There's been mention of friends, etc. and I'm willing to bet some of them knew something. There are fundamentalist religious sects in the US who promote a very similar lifestyle and conservative patriarchy value system. These groups are all linked to the "home school" movement and are the radical fringe of it. They do engage in child abuse and for that reason fight efforts to make home schooling publicly accountable. So, even though this family remained somewhat isolated, they were part of this church subculture that promotes these practices. They likely had friends who were part of this religion, probably had interactions, instruction, reinforcement over the years from social media. I'm willing to guess during many of the years they were married, they were attending these churches and prayer groups.
Perhaps Rodriguez hasn't investigated the case enough or isn't too familiar with these radical religious sects to realize there's a pattern of child abuse associated with them. He does acknowledge that there are probably many other similar cases of abuse going on right now.
I hope the older kids get some assistance in the community, but sadly the lack of an organized safety net for people like this in the US doesn't exist. Here's a link to a recent article discussing how over 4 million young people in the US are now homeless, mostly due to mental illness and aging out of the foster care system.
Four Million Young People Were Homeless Last Year. Four Million.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics...poeople-were-homeless-last-year-four-million/
We are a sick nation that needs to heal.
