If I had let Leo do what he offered to do, I would not have been my daughter’s protector.

I would have been one more powerful man deciding, in the dark, that his own certainty gave him the right to destroy someone.

I would have been Chad Kensington with better training.

Accountability is the opposite.

It is public.

It happens in the light, according to rules that apply to everyone, administered by a system that the whole society agrees to be bound by.

It does not make me into a criminal; it affirms that I am not one.