Talk:Willow Schnee/@comment-73.109.80.49-20200128214726/@comment-4010415-20200212203708

We don't know how long ago she put up the cameras. It could have been very, very recently. For all we know, she could have gotten the idea when he decided to run for Council.

And we don't have any proof that he was physically abusive toward his children. Sure, we have him slapping Weiss, but she looked shocked that he did it. We have him breaking something out of anger while arguing with Ironwood in Taking Control, but that doesn't necessarily mean he ever hurt his children in a fit of rage. If he threw things and broke things while angry, it would've scared his children and led to emotional trauma, but it wouldn't have counted as physical abuse.

Mental and emotional abuse is harder to provide hard evidence for to the police than physical abuse, so if Jacques wasn't physically abusing his children (at least, not directly), then it would've been harder for Willow to gather solid evidence.

I say "not directly" because, according to the Shirow Miwa manga, Jacques is indirectly responsible for Weiss' scar, as he was the one who set up for her to fight the Arma Gigas to win his permission to go to Beacon. Though, it seems implied that he did not expect her to actually defeat it, which makes it all the more despicable. But if Willow's cameras were not around back then, then she doesn't have any evidence of his plot involving the Arma Gigas.