What we have here is a classic example of a co-dependant dysfunctional relationship.

I agree, Marolyn was a major victim but also a huge yet perhaps unwitting perpetrater of the Maharaji myth. 

By the same token can you imagine the impact she would have if she ever got help, got honest about it and came clean.

That would be a major stretch I know, but what an enormous breakthrough that would be for the healing of so many.