Part Thirteen: What the Law Actually Did

Nineteen months.

That is the honest number and I lead with it because everybody expects a courtroom in six weeks.

Here is the sequence.

The mandatory report from Jasper generated a Department of Family and Protective Services intake on the Sunday.

A caseworker saw my daughter on the Tuesday, in the hospital, without me in the room, which is correct procedure and which I did not enjoy.

Because the reported incident involved a local police department’s handling, the case was referred out.