I do not think Douglas Renner left our daughter in a car to punish me.

I think a man who had spent nineteen years arranging a household so that other people’s needs did not have to enter his attention arrived at a Saturday afternoon where a four-year-old’s existence simply did not enter it.

That is worse than cruelty.

Cruelty at least requires him to have been thinking about her.

There was a report to the Department of Family and Protective Services.

There was an investigation.