It truly is later than we think!
If the part about giving the lady a choice to repent or leave is true, the problem was handled without much thought of how the current liberal law would respond. They could have told the mother of that family, "You have publicly shamed the church and the Lord's name, we want to remove ourselves from you." (i.e. withdraw from you). They might also have done some strong teaching about how standing with someone who is wrong makes one wrong too.
Note that the ploy the detective is using is that "family sticks together no matter what."
In Scripture we have many examples of "families" that had to be separated or stand against one another because of evil done by one member. What would the Lord have us do? We are no longer under the Old Law, but note how the Lord judges evil in family members in Deuteronomy 13:6-11.
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
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