Shana is an incredibly compassionate, wise, caring person as well.  Her judgment in many situations has been better than mine especially with regard to assessing someone's motives or character.  She was also never a premie. 

I can also see there is affection and love between them and each is concerned for the welfare of the other.

They are both involved devoted parents who very much want to raise their child in a healthy and safe environment. 

I have first hand, recent, experience spending time with them. I feel very comfortable saying Hans thinks seriously about things, is perfectly capable of saying no, or correcting someone, respectfully. He makes his own decisions. His politeness, was notable for me, because he looks like he got the best facial features of both his parents, and at first I couldn't help but see their faces in his. But as time went on, he is just himself. He is very respectful in how he converses with others, much more so than you would expect someone raised with such wealth and status within a group to be. He seems to have a distaste for elitism.  There is just no truth to the idea he is some puppet of his wife. It's incredibly insulting, as is so much that was said, but this particular thing, the idea that Hans is in the control of Shana or ex premies, is just not what I have seen at all. 

Another thing, Shana pointed this out to me, I hope she doesn't mind my repeating it. They both have made Facebook posts, it's very clearly written by two different people, she volunteered, to me, that  her writing often has typos or spelling errors. She is self conscious about that too, but was self effacing in how she said anyone could see it isn't her because of how well he writes.  Any one can see her "voice" in her writing. And Hans, also, has a distinctive different writing style. I have read both styles both off and on Facebook. I don't even believe the people who know him, and say that they question whether it is him, likely believe what they say, he clearly has a writing "voice" and it's very much the person you meet when you meet him. 

I would may write more. But right now, sticking to my first person experience and observations and opinion, I am comfortable sharing this.

I am so concerned for both of them. How incredibly difficult this must be. We all know how nasty this cult is when threatened, and no one I know of advised them to speak out. In fact, at least with Shana's first post here, I urged her to edit some not because it wasn't true, but because without the context it might have been misconstrued. We I think most people advise caution. 

But do I understand why they speak out? Of course I do. It's their lives, their experiences, their right to speak of it.  

A long time ago, when A posted her story, Cynthia responded with "you did it, you are free".  Secrets are burdens, the shame is the perpetrators. Sometimes, telling the truth about the impact of abuse in your life, and trying to protect others, is healing.