Read Chapter 24: — SENTENCE

Gavin was convicted on multiple counts.

Not every allegation.

Enough.

Others received suspended sentences, fines, dismissals or professional sanctions.

The public wanted a clean ending.

There was none.

Martin did not automatically recover every lost grant.

Aunt Beth still had debt.

Peter’s family remained fractured.

Daniel’s career record did not magically erase itself.

Noah lost a year of ordinary school life.

Emma’s fake images still existed somewhere online.

Justice closed files.

It did not restore time.

But it changed the direction of fear.

For years Emma’s family had waited for Gavin’s next move.

Now Gavin waited for decisions made by people he could not bully.

That was something.