Chapter 21 - MARGARET’S SENTENCE
At sentencing, Margaret spoke.
I expected excuses.
Culture.
Marriage.
Her own childhood.
Instead:
“I believed suffering could teach women their place because suffering taught me mine.”
The courtroom went silent.
“That belief was evil when it was done to me, and I made it evil again when I did it to Hannah.”
She cried.
Then:
“I thought I was helping my son keep his family. I was helping him destroy it.”
She received incarceration followed by supervision, restitution related to trust proceeds she improperly retained, and restrictions on contact with Emma and Lily.
No automatic grandmother visits later.
Family court would decide only if the girls wanted and professionals considered it safe.
I did not forgive her that day.
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Her insight belonged to her.
My boundary belonged to me.
