“Thea, I need you to understand the frame the court uses, because it is not the frame you are in.

“A court decides what is in the best interest of this child.

Not what a parent deserves.

Not what happened to you.

“Your husband lied to you about your other son.

It is one of the worst things I have heard in nineteen years of this work and I believe every word of it.

“He has never harmed Auggie.

He has never neglected Auggie.