Trevor looked at his father with a fire in his eyes that I had never seen before in our marriage. “The crime was committed in private, but the justice for Madeline will be very public,” he declared.
The trial was an agonizing process that forced me to relive the trauma in front of a room full of strangers. Simon’s lawyer tried to suggest that I might have been conscious or that my memory was failing me.
Dr. Jennings stood her ground and testified that an unconscious patient is incapable of giving any form of consent. The nurses wept openly in the courtroom when they were shown the full extent of the security videos.
I stood before the judge with shaking legs and forced myself to speak the truth for everyone to hear. “They took my voice away when I could not fight back, but today I am taking it back,” I told the court.
