My Fiancée Forced My Six-Year-Old Daughter to Sleep Under the Stairs—Then I Pulled a Recorder From Her Teddy Bear and Heard What She Was Really Selling
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Chapter 21 - Sentencing
Factors against Seraphina:
Child victim.
Multiple incidents.
Planning.
Abuse of caretaker authority.
Attempt to isolate Anouk for adult convenience.
Commercial motive surrounding access.
Lack of immediate remorse.
Factors in mitigation:
No prior felony record.
No serious physical injury.
Anouk remained in school.
Food and medical care were not wholly withheld.
Guilty plea.
Sentence:
Three years.
Eighteen months suspended.
Eighteen months to serve.
Two years probation.
No contact with Anouk during supervision absent court approval—which I had no intention of requesting.
Mandatory parenting/boundary course before any future caregiving role involving children.
Restitution for specified therapy costs.
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No lifetime sentence.
Enough.
