My Sister Slapped My Six-Year-Old at Her Own Birthday Party—Then Threatened Me With the Mother Who Was Watching Everything Live
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Chapter 20 / 27
Chapter 20 - Marietta’s sentence
Loss:
Criminally proven amount:
$14,600.
Not $40,000.
The rest remained civil/disputed.
No prior criminal record.
Misdemeanor child battery already on probation history.
The judge considered repeated dishonesty.
Sentence:
Five months home confinement with electronic monitoring.
Eighteen months probation.
Restitution:
$14,600 to family office.
Fine.
No handling of Bennett family reimbursement programs during probation.
Civil settlement later required additional:
$18,000
to resolve disputed unsupported reimbursements.
No double recovery.
No prison.
No confiscation of house.
No taking Claire’s college savings.
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Marietta’s choices had consequences.
Claire did not become collateral.
