Majority of replies show how difficult the choice is. It’s not a choice most of us think we would make.
It is a very easy choice if you (1) have any self-respect whatsoever, (2) care about the welfare of children, (3) are committed to safeguarding your own children.
She's not a victim, Jace isn't a victim - they are poor excuses for human beings. There are so many things that can be forgiven but keeping a known pedophile in your home with your children is unforgivable. Waxing poetic about your victimhood, and gushing about what a good father the pedophile is is completely delusional, self-absorbed, and repulsive.
What about the twelve-year-old, what about the six-year-old? These little girls will never be the same.
How can people make excuses for this situation? What is wrong with people? No one cares that these little girls' lives may have been ruined by this abuse and now videos of them being sexually abused circulate on the web.
Maddie and Jace don't deserve empathy or sympathy or concern. Maddie isn't fit to be a parent - shown by keeping her children in the same home as a pedophile. Jace should be in prison and should never have contact with children not even his own children unless supervised (not by Maddie) but by a court-appointed chaperone. In prison he would likely receive just treatment for his crimes (from inmates), he would find out very quickly exactly what it's like to be violated - but any sexual abuse he may receive would still never come close to what he paid to have happen to those little girls.
Hopefully he never touched their children - but no one will know unless they eventually find the confidence to report any abuse.
I would not want to agree with her choices but would defend her right to make them.
Yeah sure whatever she has a right to make whatever decision she wants. But just because she has a right to make a decision doesn't mean it's a good decision or that it's a moral decision or that it's in the best interest of her children.
Personally, if my partner was found to have committed such an atrocious act I would be at the forefront of a mob insisting on his imprisonment. I would condemn him far and wide - all love for him would disappear upon his confession because the person I believed him to be would have been a lie.
People that sexually abuse children do not deserve a life they do not deserve freedom or comfort they deserve to spend the remainder of their lives under state surveillance (post prison release). Child sexual abusers deserve nothing except to be forced to devote their lives to ensuring that their victims have all of the psychological support they need.
IDGAF what Jace's childhood was like we all make choices. I get it he was apparently abused as a child - that's pretty common unfortunately. But as soon as an adult makes the choice to abuse a child they lose all credibility and their childhood demons cease to matter.