...click on the story. When looking at the photos, the man and woman looked more like brother and sister. Reading about the "biological" father and "adoptive" father was interesting - so, I'm guessing my follow-up thought was also wrong. How sad for all...

She found them and moved in when she turned 18. The bio dad and the daughter were later accused of incest.
Now bio dad allegedly killed her, their child, and her adoptive father.

for social services, not law enforcement? Arresting of age people for incest?

They needed a treatment oriented intervention (and, apparently, a safety plan for the girl and the baby)

Baby was living neither with him nor with her when baby was killed.

Kind Regards

Four people are dead, including an innocent baby and a probably innocent adoptive Dad. People who get themselves in messes like this tend to be fragile and need to be handled, not arrested.

to solve problems with as few resulting tragedies as possible. Black and white thinking and human behavior rarely go well together.

How do you propose to solve that problem?

and a real rescue plan.

There are also no reports that he was violent prior to this.
What would be the "real rescue plan" here?

what ever you said.

So there would be no reason to believe he was going to do what he is accused of doing. Their bond conditions required them to stay away from each other. They weren't even living in the same state.

n/t

for marriage. I found that an additional wierd .

... never had a chance. This sad story has no winners but only losers in the game of life. But again, more death from anger, shame, fear and easily available cheap firearms. Betting it was a pistol.

No one would have batted an eye there over that kind of relationship, and everyone would still be alive.

Note that the folks in this article are from that well-know hotbed of incest, New Milford, Connecticut. Why drag West VA into it?

I do apologize. I know many people from West Virginia, in fact my son was born there, and only a few of them are in incestuous relationships.

Put the girl and her son in a treatment shelter - with counseling.

Mandatory intervention for bio-father (with counseling).

As a society we have a vested interest in incest laws - (I'm certainly not arguing against them)
but sometimes a legal intervention just doesn't seem like the best thing

I've seen some that actually worked with young mother's to help them learn parenting (and in this case would have had the capacity to work with her on why her choices were.....well, not the best).

She needed a major treatment intervention no matter what - if anything in her life (or her son's) was going to 'work'.

But - as it was - nothing worked - and the dad did what he did.

Apparently she also informed her bio dad/husband she was breaking up with him.
I don't see any reason to believe that this wouldn't have happened if she were in a shelter instead.

- certainly not nearly enough to make any kind of informed judgment about the case. But I would add that shelter addresses are closely held (no one is supposed to know the exact location of the shelter) and staff are trained to help ensure that they are secure. The women are not allowed to contact their former partners, for instance, because - as you know - when you leave a a relationship - that's the most difficult time for a woman.

Perhaps she just needed to be taught some of the basics. She had no way of knowing that this was a dangerous moment for her - most professionals, otoh, would have known that this was a possibility.

But more than that, my point was just that she needed an intervention and treatment - and so did he.

Her father/husband was supposed to be living in a different state.