G'day... that's an awful feeling and I sympathise. And it's not an instinct without substance,, a whole lot of money is being thrown at the defence of Christopher, I am assuming the entire family has had to chip in, like it or not, having only seen the sister in the flesh, ( so to speak , on the screen ) she is not convinced her money has been spent wisely. They have obviously, to me, been cleaning up after Christopher for years, and years, way back from Primary school, they are old hands at the job, but this job, this trial, this crime , in the light of all the others, is possibly a step too far even for them. Their funds would be somewhat limited, in that they are not millionaires... a lot of this finance would be borrowed against their assets....Risky business.
I am puzzled, and this is not a criticism, I live in a country where Govt. Orgs sometimes appear to be run by a specially selected family of lunatics, so this isn't an 'I am better, you are worse ' thing.. but it is this.. He has an assault charge, he was booted out of secondary and tertiary schools, for criminal misbehaviour . I want to know how he got accepted as a teacher, got his licence to teach, as a registered teacher, and in particular, a teacher of special students. This , I do not grasp. Somebody fiddled the books, is all I can think of, but surely, that cannot be so?