My bet is they didn’t investigate too hard. Didn’t check his computer/s, phones, texts, emails.
I wonder if there isn’t some unspoken agreement that it will be difficult to impossible to convict without the spouse testifying that they did not want children or that they didn’t like the children.
You kind of get an idea of what court testimony will be like.
Good point...in the last notorious case of child car abandonement ......
they found the dad surfing porn sites at work while the baby baked in the car.