“It’s important we don’t interpret a child’s words beyond what she has actually said,” he explained.

“We will investigate what she means.

You don’t need to ask her about it yourself.”

He asked me for the original message from Whitney telling me to pick up my belongings.

Then he asked for information about household surveillance cameras and whether I knew who had access to them.

We had installed cameras above the driveway and rear fence two years earlier after several tools were stolen from my truck.

Whitney managed the account.