Indictments came down in the March.

Five months.

The charge that carried everything is Texas Penal Code 22.04 — injury to a child — and specifically subsection (b), which provides that an omission is an offense if the person has a legal or statutory duty to act, or has assumed care, custody or control of the child.

That is not an obscure provision.

It is the statute that exists precisely for the situation where nobody swung anything and a child was hurt anyway because adults did not act.

When the result is serious bodily injury and the mental state is knowing, it is a first-degree felony, which in Texas carries five to ninety-nine years.