There you are.

Chapter 15 — What They Did to the Only One Who Acted Like Family

That should have been the end of it, the civil part, the money returned.

But financial exploitation of an elderly person is not only a civil matter, and there had been a detective sitting quietly at the back of the courtroom the entire time, waiting for the judge to finish.

He stepped forward as the session closed.

My father was arrested there in the courthouse — for financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, for forgery, for fraud.