“I want to explain what happens now, because I don’t want any of it to be a surprise to you.

“I am a mandated reporter.

That means that what you’ve told me and what I’ve documented is going to be reported to Hennepin County child protection tonight, by me, before I leave this building.

That is not a decision I get to make and it is not one you get to make.

I want you to hear that clearly because women in your position sometimes think they’ve set something in motion, and you haven’t.

I have.”