I agree. I believe that a parent's responsibility is to protect their children. There is nothing that will convince me that this had to go on for so many years and that there was nothing the mother could do. It's easy for her to now try to come up with some "battered wife" defense, but it is too little and much too late.
You got that right.
It makes me sick when I hear women say,but what was I supposed to do.
She should have grabbed her son at the age of 5 and ran, instead she stayed around and brought another child into the world with this POS,it's really mind blowing.