By noon my phone was buzzing without pause as people I knew forwarded me links to posts spreading across local social media.

The posts showed clear photographs of Gaby holding Leo, begging between cars on Grand Avenue, beneath a cruel caption: Spoiled rich girl uses her own infant to beg on the streets, manipulating her hard-working husband over a minor marital dispute.

Hundreds of hateful comments poured in beneath them, calling my daughter a monster, an unfit mother, demanding the authorities take her child.

“This is exactly what they planned, Dad,” Gaby wept, shaking as she read.