That is in the file, and it is the single most damning page in the whole matter, and it is four sentences long, and it says that a prospective relinquishment of parental rights is unenforceable in every jurisdiction and cannot be relied upon.

And then, six weeks later, he sat in a conference room and presented it to an unrepresented pregnant woman as though it were operative.

He was asked, in the deposition, on the second day, what he had told her.

And Russell Tannehill said: “I told her what the document said.”

He was asked whether he had told her it was unenforceable.

He said: “She didn’t ask me.”