Richard looked at me across that courtroom as though I had reached into his life and destroyed it.

But I had not forged a single document.

I had not written two contradictory accounts of the same day.

I had not kept a secret file painting a frightened child as a monster.

I had not left my daughter unconscious in the rain, or driven off to buy steak and wine while she lay there.

They had built every piece of the evidence that undid them, with their own hands, over months.