reasypeasy
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In my mind, he sold his soul to the devil and his daughter down the river the minute he decided / agreed to leave Australia with EB. His guilt began the moment he let his needs and EB's needs became more important than Zahra's needs and he left his family and support system.
He could have jumped overboard from the SS Gothic Fairy at any point up until then. He CHOSE not to. Complicit day #1 in my book. Simple-minded or not, that will lie at his feet for eternity.
MOO
I agree with that. Even if EB hadn't been such a physical and emotional threat to his child, it was a huge mistake. He took a disabled cancer survivor away from Australia where she had an entitlement to excellent mostly-free medical care and generous payments to her guardian for her general expenses as a child (family tax payment) and her care as a disabled child (carer allowance) and took her to a country where financing her medical care was far more uncertain and those cash payments from the Australian government were going to stop or reduce eventually because the payments aren't portable forever. Also, with that level of disability in Australia she would probably be entitled to an income support payment (disability support pension) in her own right when she turned 16, and extra payments if she studied (pensioner education supplement) or needed help using public transport (mobility allowance).
Absolutely awful thing to do. He should have left her with family here.