I wouldn't necessarily say the parents are aware of that. The info was leaked here and is basically contained to here, twitter, and YT comments. It's not like Nick or Kayla or April would tell them. They'd have to be googling Nick or have someone present it to them directly, I guess possible through their local gossip sphere. Maybe someone hit them up via BoomerBook? Perhaps
@ItsAaronIgnoreMe informed them?
Doesnt excuse the rest.
I believe they had to be present for the hearings since they were the temporary foster parents, and that is where the info came from, no?
Even if they weren't, if your son gets into this kind of trouble, and it becomes obvious that he has a problem with addiction, and you realize he has been lying to you for a very long time about multiple things (and your grandchildren's wellbeing seems to be at stake), there is no way that you let your lying, addict son be your only source of information about the whole thing. At least not if you care about those grandkids.
Besides, they 100% should have been there (and likely were) to support the two oldest kids that HAD to be present at those hearings.
Also, I am sure people in that little town gossip, this type of info gets around one way or another. Especially if you have people who are part of the family who are mad (that would, at the very least, describe Kayla's sister).
There is
no excuse for them not to be aware of what happened. In fact, I would go as far as saying that what happened happened
because they weren't paying close enough attention while enabling Rekieta and funding his lifestyle. Remember the rants about him finally being "free" to do whatever he wanted to now that he was making a lot of money? Without their funding, he would have never been able to not work while attempting to become a streamer full time. And his debauchery started long before he had major success.
Either way, any parent with a minimum of self awareness would question whether their actions led to what their child had become. So Bob and Celeste running in to continue funding and enabling him tells you all you need to know about them.
I'll forgive his parents to a degree. They're only getting info from him, and he's demonstrated himself to be a somewhat less than reliable narrator of information. People are always going to reflexively say "My kid would NEVER do that!" its natural. Every parent is supposed to be protective of their kids.
If you have very young, very vulnerable grandkids that seem to be in danger because of your son's irresponsible choices, that supersedes being protective of your kid. It's probably one of the few situations were most (rational) parents would turn against their own kids.
Besides, like I mentioned, if you let your addict son (who keeps denying he has a problem) be your only source of information in a situation like this, at best you are an idiot, and at worst, you are willingly ignoring outside info because you don't want to admit your son is a fuckup who endangers his children.