The Closing Statement
Because there was no order.
There was no case.
There was no filing of any kind anywhere.
Julian and I were two married parents with equal rights to two children, and I had taken those children out of the family home eight days earlier and moved them into the house of a third party, and told nobody.
Patricia said: “If he had walked into Leo’s school on Wednesday and signed him out, there would have been nothing unlawful about it and no police officer in this state would have stopped him.”
I said, “He wouldn’t.”