Mark Coyne, twelve years, wire fraud and grand larceny, forty-one victim families.

Then he got a rumor blog from 2018 — one of the ones Mark himself had paid, still online, still monetized — that had covered the whole thing as a scandal and had, in the fourth paragraph, named the six-year-old.

And then, because it was there, he got the comments.

I don’t know exactly what he read.

He has never told me and I have never asked.

I know he was in that bathroom for two hours and forty minutes and that when he came out he was not crying.