My brother in-law owns the McMinnville news paper and his reporters have been digging up information about this case. It has already been reported (Oregonlive.com)that the families of both the husband and wife were trying to get a court order to force the Bryant's into making them give some kind of legal visitation rights to the grand parents so they could take the kids to the meetings.
The Bryant's moved from Northern California specifically to get away from the family pressure which involved shunning the two parents and trying to communicate with the kids to tell them they were going to die at Armageddon if they did not go to meetings with the grand parents.
It looks like Robert Bryant finally lost it when his parents found out where he moved to in Oregon. While he and his family still lived in California local elders from the congregation he was DF'ed from spied on his home with binoculars and continually harassed them. Robert and his wife did nothing illegal to get DF'ed for but only came to the point of no longer believing the watchtower's teaching. They were DF"ed for "apostasy."
They were constantly harasses by congregation members as well as parents and siblings from both the wife and fathers side of the family.
This is so incredibly sick and the dumb ass JW's have no idea the psychological damage they put on people with their bullshit policies and rules. Just like Christian Longo of a few months ago the JW bullshit is so strong it pushes a person to kill his family feeling they are better off dead then in that jackass religion. Maybe now people will start to realize the brainwashing technique of the JW's and the deep psychological manipulation they use to cause permeant damage to a persons psyche.
As the JW's say "you will know my people by their love for one another (and their hatred for everyone else)"
Dave
