The verdicts were severe.

Radley was sentenced to thirty-five years for kidnapping, extortion, fraud, and child endangerment.

Tamsyn received twenty-eight for her central role.

Their assets were seized, and full restitution was ordered to Ellard and Sidonie — though no ruling could give back the six years, and everyone in the room knew it.

Chapter 26 — Proving She Was Alive

There was a strange, cruel bureaucracy to the aftermath.