If the stories are true, then Newt Knight was a sick man. People who knew his post war family, said he forced two of his children from his legal wife (Serena), a boy and girl, to marry the children of his mistress (Rachael). The causes they give are too sensitive to mention here, but you can imagine if it is true, this man was not right. Now it is argued that the mistresses children were not his, but still, being a remote and isolated group as they were he controlled their lives to the extreme.