[GretchenEE]

I know nothing about Florida laws, but:

What I don't understand is why he didn't, if he could by law, divorce her and leave her to the custody, care, and financial burden of her parents, who would surely have stepped up to assume responsibility for her life, rather than go through THIS.

I wonder, If he couldn't divorce her, could he not have signed her caretaking over to her parents?

[deannadurbin]

>>What I don't understand is why he didn't, if he could by law, divorce her and leave her to the custody, care, and financial burden of her parents

He wants to make sure she never speaks, so she can't tell the truth about how she got into the condition she did.