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release, you will serve five years of supervised probation. You will complete anger management and parenting courses. You are to have no contact with Emma Morgan or her immediate family.”

The courtroom exploded.

Brooklyn screamed. My mother shouted, “No!” My father grabbed her arm. Vanessa sat motionless, as if the words had not reached her yet.

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