CNU-My daughter-in-law said Christmas would be easier if I stayed away, and my son did not even raise his eyes to defend me. So I stayed home, alone, exactly as requested. …

He looked, for one split second before they turned him, directly toward a camera as if he were searching for someone he knew in the crowd.

Then the handcuffs came out.

It made the noon broadcast. The evening broadcast. The national sites by nightfall.

Susan and Raymond were at school when it happened.

By three p.m., Child Protective Services had contacted continue reading …