And he said the name of a private hospital in San Jeronimo, which is eleven minutes from their house and about fifty from the nearest pediatric emergency department, and I did not register that for four days.

I drove ninety minutes and I got there at ten past eight in the morning and I was not allowed to see my daughter.

I want to explain how that actually happens, because everybody assumes a mother cannot be prevented from seeing her own child’s body and everybody is wrong.

Sophia had been pronounced at 5:11 that morning.

Under the arrangement in force, Fernando was her sole managing conservator.

He was the person with legal authority over the remains.