He was released in the spring of 2026.

I want to say a few things about that outcome, because everybody I have told has had the same reaction and it is not the right one.

Four years is not a small number in that building.

Kyle Fenneman is very good and Curtis had no prior record and the State had a medical opinion, an unretracted statement, and no confession and no witness, and there was a real chance of an acquittal.

Marguerite Stiles — who is not required to care about the criminal case at all and who does — told me at the time: “Every child abuse case in this county turns on a doctor’s report and a defendant who talks.