Chadworth went too, separately, which he had not planned on and which was Dr.

Boateng’s non-negotiable condition for taking the case.

“You want me to treat the children,” she had said, in their first meeting, “for an environment you built.”

“I didn’t build it.”

“You built the conditions.

You were absent for extended periods, you introduced an adult with authority and no accountability, and you had constructed a household in which the only person who noticed the problem had no standing to raise it and the person creating the problem had unlimited access to you.” She had said all this pleasantly, with her hands folded.

“I’m not interested in punishing you, Mr.