She has never contested it and she did not appeal.

And here is what an indicated finding actually does, which I did not know and which Rosalind Vey had warned me about in week one and which I did not properly believe until I watched it happen to my sister.

It goes in a registry.

Not a public one — you cannot look anybody up.

But it is checked.

Every school district, every childcare centre, every hospital volunteer programme, every youth sports organization, every foster licensing process, every adoption, in this state and in most others, runs that check.

Perla was a paraprofessional in a school district in DuPage County.