I honestly don't know the answer to that. I find his affect very, um, interesting. I think he is the sort of male who lets the women in his life handle the woman stuff. His mother, Karen Baker assisted him with raising Zahra while in Australia. I get the impression that he simply wasn't a very "hands on" sort of father but rather, left it all up to the female in the household.
It would not surprise me one bit if that tact continued once he arrived here stateside.
Should he have been more involved? I think so.
Does it mean he knew of the abuse and was complicit in allowing it to go on? I really have not formed an opinion on that yet. Or I should say I form an opinion daily on that and then change it the next.
ETA I do think, in light of CPS contact summary released today, that he has no excuse for not being on notice that at least some people had serious concerns. Serious enough to report them. Reports were made on numerous occassions. Any parent who I can respect would have their radar up after one.
If he was gullible enough to believe that all those seperate reports were just made out of sour grapes from peple who hated EB then he is gullible indeed. Especially since we also know that there were a number of LE involed domestic reports so, the honeymoon was definately over if all the screaming and brawling the Bakers were doing at their address previous to 21st are any indication.