I wish I could tell you it came with a speech or a confession.

It didn’t.

It came with a signature and a sentence: nine years on the felony child abuse charge, with the other charges rolled into it.

His sons were placed with their mother’s sister in Opelousas.

The older boy, the one who had said his dad made Finn sleep in the shed on Tuesday, wrote Finn a letter through the caseworker.

It was just one page, written in pencil, with the erased marks still showing.