I thought the same thing. The first thing I thought was maybe EG did it and the boys lied about it to protect her. But if that's a possibility, we have to assume it's also possible that JH hurt Lucas and he lied and said it was EG to protect his dad. In reality, I'd be shocked if it was only one of them doing all the abuse. That makes so much sense when you consider how nonchalant JH has been about the abuse this whole time, and why he cut his family off when they questioned it.
It's possible that when the older boys' bio dad called EG to confront her about the abuse, he told her he was going to try to get all her visitation rights revoked. This could've
triggered her. Maybe she felt JH made her lose her boys, so he needed to lose his too.
Regardless, it's starting to make sense why JH doesn't have his daughter right now. I wonder what else there is to that...
I'm wondering about the positions each individual was in to get the handprint bruises on a child's chest? How tall are EG and JH compared to the height of a child the age of the bruised child (I think approx 7 yrs old?) It would surely be easier for someone of shorter stature to get a handprint on the child's chest?
The child could have been begged to lie about the person who caused the bruises if it was EG and she told them to say "tell your dad it was JH who did it but stress that it was an accident. If your dad thinks it was me, then he might stop you from visiting me again, and I love you so much..." (guilt tripping the kid into lying.
So I can't rule out the possibility of the child covering for her. But obviously the child might not have been covering and it might have been JH.
In the interview EG has a major pity party for herself saying that it's particularly difficult for her at this time with all that's going on?
As I noted earlier, she seemed to have a problem in that interview calling JH her boyfriend or fiance, instead calling him "their dad". Have they had relationship issues since the 4th February when this incident happened? Did she tell him she'd kick him out? (the irony!) or did he decide to walk because he didn't want that allegation made against him when he's already had allegations of child abuse on his own son from multiple people who assumed 'she' was responsible?.
It is odd that if she was kicking out JH that she'd move into a house, which surely had a higher rent than an apartment? And yet she can't afford to pay child support for her own sons and has to beg JH to send money on her behalf?
None of it makes sense from the outside, just from these snippets, but it does all suggest that their relationship is still volatile, or going through a patch of higher volatility again. And if JH isn't in the home, I can certainly imagine EG taking out her anger on Lucas.
I know a lot of people have made numerous criticisms of JH's interview (the one with the bio mom) and also the statement he put out before. But to me I don't see anything in either that screams that he was involved or knew what had happened. EG's interview is the opposite of his in many ways. He talks about Lucas, he says he's worried about Lucas being scared. EG talks about herself and says she's having such a hard time right now. She says she wishes Lucas was back with her, but she doesn't say she's scared for how he might be feeling or what he might have been going through. In that sense EG reminds me a lot of the interviews with Mariah's mom when KW said that she wished she could have her daughter back.
Kadoober's transcript is brilliant -- thank you Kadoober!
The timing of that "I have to go now" is very interesting! It really, strongly implies to me that she's hiding knowledge of what happened to Lucas.
PS I wish someone had actually measured that handprint on Lucas' arm to work out the size of the hand it belonged to!