“Mrs.

Parker, did that incident cause the injury to your wrist?” “Yes,” I said.

I will not describe the footage in any greater detail than the court required, because the point of it was never the pain, which was minor and healed within weeks.

The point was the lie.

My son had taken a moment in which his wife physically hurt me and he stood by and let it happen, and he had photographed the aftermath and presented it to a court as evidence that I could not care for myself.

He had turned an act of abuse into a piece of paperwork.