Carl Buchman is the husband of Simone Buchman and the father of their teenage daughter Janie.
History[]
The Buchmans were previously members of the Christian Tabernacle of Grace before Eugene Hoff manipulated them into pulling out and joining his cult, the Church of Wisdom and Sight. By the parents' accounts, after Janie was told to leave out of earshot for the sake of not flashing back, Hoff was best known for directly engaging the members into reciprocating and embracing paranoid, hive-minded beliefs all based on fiction and reversed religious perspectives. The family gave countless donations to Hoff, which was revealed to be a convoluted scam. What made them be finished and leave was seeing Hoff undressed to his shorts, about to rape Janie behind a closed door, which happened to other girls in the cult.
Questioning the Buchmans led to additional cult hideouts and the revelations of Hoff's scams for successfully taking the cult down. (SVU: "Charisma")