My 5-Year-Old Niece Whispered, “The Chair Hurts”—Then a Doctor Found the Truth Her Parents Had Been Hiding

She had been a child.

Marcus’s later conduct did not become her responsibility because she could not force adults to believe her decades earlier.

I told her:

“You are not responsible for what he did after you.”

She cried.

Then:

“I know that logically.”

Sometimes logic arrives years before belief.

PART 30 — SOPHIA DOES NOT PREPARE FOR TRIAL WITH ME

I never rehearsed her testimony.