Loving Your Child Is an Instinct; Shielding Him From the Consequences of What He Did to Another Human Being Is Something Else Entirely — I Learned the Difference at Sixty, at the Door of a Chicken Coop
Chapter 13 — The Verdict
Several weeks later the trial ended, and the judge read the verdict: guilty on all counts, including aggravated domestic assault and unlawful imprisonment.
Eighteen years, without early parole.
When I heard the number, I felt no triumph.
I want to be honest about that, because I think people expect a mother in my position to feel vindicated, and I did not.
He was still my son.
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