There is much more to this story and it is really none of our business, but I suspect that the girl’s family knew of and condoned her relationship with the teacher.
In no way does that make the their ‘relationship’ right, but just points to disfunction in the family.
Yep, that’s what I think too.
There’s a lot we don’t know.
No of course an adult man should not take off with an underage girl. But, she likely wanted to go with him, to escape a bad situation at home. And it’s likely he took advantage of her and encouraged her.
Since this began felt the father was either “out of touch” or just in a position to not know what was going on for reasons I will never understand.
Never mind the teacher, how can your own wife be abusing 5 of your kids and you not know? Yes he was on the road a lot with his job but no one told him? So you are telling me they kept him in the dark that well? To look at his soon to be ex wife she dies not appear all that intelligent as to hide that kind of abuse.
When a child is being abused it's everybody's business to stop it.