His defense argued, credibly, that a pediatrician looks up dosing tables constantly and that a man in a custody fight looks up custody law constantly.

That argument survived until the messages.

Because he had also, over the same five weeks, been texting a woman he was seeing, and the texts are the case, and the reason is that in them he is not careful.

Eleven days before, he wrote: evaluator is going to interview them alone on the 16th which is a problem.

Nine days before: if something happens on her time it’s over inside a week.

C already thinks she’s the fun one.