Yeah, and why are so many people rounding on the dad as if it's his fault?
He didn't rape and muder the child! He didn't let the scum who did into his life and hand over all discipline rights to him. He didn't hide the child away from those closest to him to protect that piece of scum and hide what he did. And he was not the one denying parental access to an ex-parter for vindictive reasons in ways obviously extremely hurtful to the child.
So he left the woman - relationships break up all the time. It's not the crime of the century. And in view of her behaviour in using her kid as an emotional weapon regardles of kid's feelings, allowing someone she barely knew into her life with full chastising rights, hiding kid from loved ones to cover up bruising to protect new boyfriend - well that's the kind of woman I and any decent guy would walk out on, to be frank.
And he never abandoned his child. He tried all that was legally in his power to gain access to his kid, and was himself fighting for custody! If the law were less automatically biased in favour of mothers in such circumstances, perhaps he'd have been recognised as the more suitable parent sooner.
People seem more happy to blame him for not breaking the law - without recognising how that would utterly have destroyed any chance he had of gaining custody from the woman, which as we now know was vitally urgent and didn't happen in time - instead of blaming her.
No. The guy who raped and killed the child is a walking advertisement for the death penalty right there. But the woman who allowed him in without really knowing him, stupidly trusted him, protected him at the expense of her daughter - putting him instead of her kid first - is herself criminally negligent in my view and should serve jail time too!
