Chapter 11 - The Police Report
Police reviewed the laundry-room incident.
Constance:
Intentional shove into closet.
Locked door.
Child crying.
No physical injury from confinement.
Winslet:
One slap.
No serious injury.
Reid:
Evidence he had previously directed use of bolt and bedding.
Potential child-endangerment concern.
Prosecutor did not charge kidnapping.
No.
No secret imprisonment.
No hours-long confinement.
No dangerous environment.
They considered misdemeanor unlawful restraint/child endangerment.
Constance faced a charge first.
Reid remained under review.
Then CPS.
Investigator Karen Lowe.
Findings later.
For now:
Safety plan.
Perry with me.
Reid supervised contact temporarily.
Constance no contact.
I hated supervised visits because Perry hated them.
“Daddy not bad.”
I said:
“Daddy made unsafe choices.”
“Can he come home?”
“Not right now.”
“Because closet?”
“Partly.”
“Because custody?”
He knew the word now.
I wished he didn’t.
“Yes.”
Then:
“Was I too loud?”
My heart broke.
“No.”
“Daddy said.”
“Daddy was wrong to make your place in the house depend on being quiet.”
Perry hugged his dinosaur.
Then:
“Dinosaurs loud.”
“Extremely.”
May you like
Good.
We had somewhere to start.
