The Forgotten Tablet in a Nashville Bedroom That Saved Two Abandoned Children
“Clerk’s office.
Don’t be late.”
We went back in at one fifteen.
Judge Evans had his glasses low on his nose and a single page in his hand.
He didn’t ask for closing arguments.
“The court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the respondent abandoned her minor children for seventy-two hours, misrepresented their whereabouts to two separate parties, and converted forty-five thousand dollars from a medical trust set up for the minor child Elsie Mercer.
Sole legal and physical custody is awarded to Arthur Mercer, effective immediately.