Daisy asked:

“Is the judge the lady who decides who gets to live at our house?”

That question triggered everything that followed.

PART 4 — NOT A WITNESS YET

Judge Barrett did not question her privately.

That would have created problems.

Instead, court services arranged for a child-protection investigator and a trained forensic interviewer to meet Daisy in a separate child-friendly room.

A guardian ad litem was contacted.

Both legal teams were informed.