Molly Martens

Yeah, I think what happened was she was getting the feeling that he was, you know, he'd had enough and that these children would now ultimately, she would no longer have control of them.

And I think that's what drove her to commit this terrible act.

She'd kind of seeded this notion that he was abusive, even though, and she'd been secretly recording him.

And, you know, and all the recordings ever showed were people, you know, a bit of tension at the home that I suppose... Happens everywhere.

Yeah, it could have happened anywhere, really.

So she'd obviously sort of pre-prepared this kind of narrative.

Her father, who was a retired FBI agent, they seem to have also fallen to a degree under her control as well.

And ultimately what her plan was, was to take him out and to then have full control of the children.

You know, extraordinary sinister and manipulative act.

And that was put into effect one night when, you know, he was effectively beaten to death in his bed.

The circumstances of it, you know, we only have the markings, of course, to rely on.

And obviously she continues to, you know, to blacken Jason's name.

I mean, that's one part of what that family have had to go through was...

because Jason is dead he can't defend himself and she had basically had free rein to paint Jason not only as an abusive person but paint him as having killed his first wife which was routinely rejected by the medical experts.

So in her post Sarah does kind of address some of that and she talks about how it took her years to find her voice and having lived through coercive control and abuse as a child

talking about her treatment at the hands of Molly Martins.

She says, I know exactly what it does to a child, how it steals your voice, your safety, your sense of reality.

Finding my voice again has taken years, she said.

And that is why I wrote A Time for Truth, which is her

the book she wrote, her memoir, not for attention, but to shine a light on injustice, to tell the story from the child's perspective and to stand with every victim who has been silenced, manipulated or disbelieved.