gawker,
I don’t know whether azi was right or not to go there, but you owe him a brocho for not being don lkaf zchus and assuming he went inside and not just to the door as he later said. I also don’t know why you assume he didn’t ask a rav, maybe he did. But one thing I can’t understand is your suggestion to send his wife. I totally agree with “anon for this” that she would be extremely vulnerable and unsafe walking into a place like that.