“I found it.

The smoking gun.

A neighbor recorded the day they threw Gaby out.”

The neighbor was an elderly woman named Martha, who had been filming the flowers on her balcony when she heard screaming next door.

I will not describe the fifty-two seconds of video she captured in detail, because my daughter is in it, and because the cruelty in it does not need narrating.

It is enough to say that it showed, plainly and undeniably, what had been done to her — a bag torn from her hands, a doorway blocked, a woman shielding her baby with her own body while she was pushed out into the street, and Brenda’s voice screaming that they did not want useless women in that house.