Five-Year-Old Daughter Said Daddy’s Bath Games Were Secret—Then I Looked Through the Bathroom Door and Called the Police
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Chapter 20 - THE CRIMINAL CASEProsecutors did not charge Mark with a sexual offense.
There was no basis.
They considered child endangerment and unlawful administration/misuse of medication, along with assaultive or restraint-related conduct depending on what the evidence supported under state law.
The repeated medication mattered.
The pediatrician warning mattered.
The records mattered.
The physical holding mattered.
The child’s age mattered.
No serious permanent physical injury existed.
No prior criminal record.
No evidence he intended lasting harm.
All of that mattered too.
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The criminal process became narrower than the nightmare I imagined in the hallway.
Narrow did not mean trivial.
