And then I remembered: before deploying, I had left my personal laptop in my home office, my messaging session still logged in, and George knew the administrative password.

I will not describe how the forgeries were assembled, because a guide to impersonating someone in order to frame them is not a thing that belongs on a page.

It is enough to say that they had been made, deliberately, to build a false record casting me as the negligent parent, and that this told me something important: this was not a family that had simply gotten careless with a child.

This was a family that had been preparing, in advance, the documentation of a lie.