They'd been out of the religion for over a decade and they were even living with her JW parents,
He was more than living with them, he had other apostates from Europe convert his FIL’s basement into an apostate studio!
No JW I could think of would ever have allowed that. Couldn’t he have said “Sorry Lloyd, but I need a place for my tools”?
Only thing I could think of that would lead to such a scenario would be if he were constantly threatening to move them away with little to no contact with the grandparents. Which as a matter of fact, he was indeed making threats of keeping the kids from them.
He couldn’t have threatened them without the acquiescence of his wife who as the mother of those children and owner of half his assets had the power to block.
Throw aside your built-in biases regarding them being practicing JWs, everyone has the right to their privacy and personal space. He violated that in the worst way possible. Imagine setting up a pro-Trump podcast in the basement of staunchly liberal household. Not just any podcast, but the #1 MAGA information channel with millions of viewers and interviews with huge and influential voices on that side of the aisle.
If there is indeed a judgment day, Jehovah God might want more than a few words with Dijana’s parents.