Chapter 37 — The Sentence

The court ordered the restitution of whatever assets could still be recovered, and the case proceeded on the several offenses that had been proven.

Months later, Griselda was sentenced to prison for the crimes the evidence established — the abuse, the fraud, the forgery, the illegal committal.

The questions surrounding Araceli’s death followed their own separate and slower legal path, as such things must.

It was not a clean, cinematic ending with every thread tied at once; real justice rarely is.