Sometimes he sounded outraged, sometimes wounded.

“You’re keeping my daughter from me,” he said in one voicemail.

Another time: “You’re destroying the family over something the doctors fixed.”

He rarely asked about the follow-up plan.

When he did, he wanted the name of the person “telling her what to say.”

My lawyer advised me on how to preserve communications and respond without arguing.

I used short messages about Sadie’s health and referred questions about contact arrangements to counsel and the authorities involved.

Sadie heard one voicemail before I could stop it.