Chapter 4: Justice in Court
Chapter 4: Justice in Court
Three months later...
Cook County Courthouse.
Every seat in the courtroom was filled.
News cameras lined the hallway.
The prosecution played the CCTV footage only once.
They didn't need to replay it.
The jury never looked away.
Doctors testified that Sophie's skull had suffered a serious fracture.
Another inch lower...
And the injury could have been fatal.
The prosecutor stood before the jury.
"This case is not about anger."
"It is about choice."
"The defendant chose to frame an innocent child."
"He chose to attack her."
"And afterward..."
"He blamed her for bleeding."
The defense had almost nothing left.
They argued stress.
Wedding pressure.
Emotional exhaustion.
The jury deliberated less than two hours.
"Guilty."
On every count.
Assault on a child.
Filing a false report.
Evidence tampering.
Child endangerment.
As deputies led Preston away, he looked toward our parents.
Neither stood.
Neither spoke.
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For the first time in his life...
No one rescued him.
