HIs side, her side, and the truth.
Here's where I come down on these cases nowadays:
Scenario 1: mom is telling the absolute truth and every bad allegation against the dad is true.
Scenario 2: mom is telling at least a couple significant lies and the dad is mostly or entirely innocent.
There are roughly 50% odds of the man being innocent, or innocent enough.
There is a 100% chance of the mother being a worthless borderline sack of shit.
Why? Because either she's a pathological liar (obvious) or she's one of those drama addicted "but I can saaaveeee hiiiiim" whores who throws her daughters under the bus so she can keep banging the big bad man who makes her tingle.
The fairytale scenario where she's a naive little victim herself just doesn't exist in reality. And this case is a perfect example of why. Because this guy has a long history of sketchy behavior as a cop, and she was there glued to his side that whole time. She knows EXACTLY who she is. She just didn't think she'd ever have to pay for it, personally. Until her oldest daughter was on the way out the door into adulthood and laid it out for her, what was on the line.
She is a piece of shit, a
grifter, and a bad person. He's probably at least 2 of the three too. Feel bad for the kids. Don't give this crying attention whore a crumb of sympathy. She'll use it against you eventually.