Rn...my take on it is that he has gone so far down the road supporting the VD's, he can't turn back around and refer to them as negligent or bad parents. He has supported them too much at this point that to change now would be a hit against his credibility/image. He did come close in one of the interviews cited here...saying something about Brenda being a crack whore.
I think Mark Klass has taken it all too personal as well, and both might think that this spotlight on the VD's and their negligence that night somehow means that they (Klass and Walsh) were guilty of negligence when their kids were kidnapped/murdered.
The BIG difference is that both Klass and Walsh felt guilty and had remorse/guilt about the events leading up to the abductions of their children (what if I had done this that night instead), while the VD's stated they had no remorse about anything they had done that night, and that they would not have done one thing differently.
Can you imagine how you would feel? One time I thought my one son then 8 had gotten lost..all the neighbors were out..the police were out..I felt awful..it must have been my fault because I had not watched him well....(it ended up he was sick and had gone to bed early...I never said I was a brain surgeon:>)
But I remember the guilt and fear..I did not see that with them..