Alexham, those are very important distinctions and points of clarification. Assuming that those are accurate (I won't make any pretensions about knowing whether they are or not), this is something Huck had better get out in front of quickly, before possibly spurious charges such as these become widespread and widely known.
Stories as gruesome and emotional as this will grab people's attention and cause visceral reactions both toward the subject matter and toward the person blamed in the author's account; with a subject as serious as this, I'm honestly not sure that (again, assuming that Huck bears no blame here) even a presentation of the facts can salvage the image of the person implicated by the story, even if that implication is completely undeserved.