“They want the whole world to believe I’m an unfit mother, so that when they take Leo, everyone will cheer.”

Sam studied the pages with a professional’s cold eye.

“This isn’t organic,” he said.

“Look — the posts use identical scripts, and they’re being boosted by newly created fake accounts.

Someone paid, and paid heavily, to make this spread.” We did not need to guess who.

And I felt something harden in me, watching my daughter shake over a phone screen full of strangers’ hatred, that had not been there even when I learned about the stolen million.

Because money can be recovered by a court.