My Daughter Was Badly Hurt Protecting a Stranger — the Powerful Families Behind It Assumed Their Names Made Them Untouchable

There were, it emerged, a great many things these powerful people had assumed no one would ever examine, precisely because no one ever had.

Their certainty of impunity had made them careless across years, and now, all at once, careful people with lawful authority were examining everything.

I want to be clear about what we did and did not do, because it matters to me, and it mattered to the case.

We did not fabricate anything.

We did not plant anything, or steal anything, or destroy anything, or touch a single thing that could not survive a courtroom.

Everything that brought those families down was real, and was theirs, and was obtained lawfully and handed to the proper authorities.