“My attorney will handle the rest.

And don’t you ever use that child as leverage to make me speak to you again.

He’s innocent.

He didn’t choose any of you.

He’s the only person in this entire room who did nothing wrong tonight — and every single adult here owes it to him not to make his life the collateral for what we did to each other.”

And for just a moment — the only moment all evening — I saw something like genuine shame cross my sister’s face.