A 5-Year-Old Walked Into Court and Told the Judge: “Let My Daddy Come Home… and I’ll Help Your Legs Remember”

not fix a damaged spine. If Miriam allowed this moment to affect the case, and if nothing came of the child’s promise, the consequences would fall on him and on the little girl already caught in the machinery of family services.

Miriam did not believe in miracles. She believed in evidence, procedure, precedent, and the daily discipline of not giving continue reading …