I read the first page and put it in the safe with the video, unanswered, and my daughter can have it at eighteen along with everything else.

Arliss Gaddis pleaded guilty to injury to a child by omission and to tampering with physical evidence, and was sentenced to twelve years.

He was seventy-five at sentencing.

He also pleaded, in federal court in Beaumont eight months later, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud arising out of the workers’ compensation reporting — that is the Hilario Saenz matter and three others that came out once people started talking — and received forty-one months, to run concurrently.

Forty-one months.