Chapter 21 - PATRICIA’S CASEPatricia’s conduct was different.
She did not administer the magnets.
She did not plan the assault.
Her legal exposure centered on what she knew afterward, her failure to respond appropriately, false or incomplete statements, and deletion of relevant security footage.
Prosecutors narrowed carefully.
Not every immoral choice becomes a felony.
The deletion mattered most because she acted after learning the camera captured Connor with Lily.
She ultimately accepted a plea on a narrower evidence-related offense and child-endangerment-related conduct supported by the facts.
Probation.
Community service.
Court-ordered education.
No unsupervised contact with Lily.
No prison epic.
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The hardest consequence for Patricia was not judicial.
It was that her children stopped letting her define what family loyalty meant.
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