Chapter 15 - The Prosecution’s Damning Evidence

On the second day of the trial, the prosecution brought forward the forensic financial experts to expose the embezzlement scheme.
Charts detailing millions of dollars siphoned into secret offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands were displayed across the courtroom.
“The defendant systematically abused her access to corporate trusts while plotting the elimination of rightful heirs,” the prosecutor argued.
Next, the pediatrician took the witness stand, detailing the miraculous rescue and the terrifying trauma inflicted on the infant.
Milo sat in the front row of the public gallery, holding his daughter securely in his arms while she slept peacefully.
He did not look at Elena once during the entire testimony, treating her with the ultimate punishment: absolute, freezing invisibility.
Elena tried to object, stammering unprofessionally from her seat, but Judge Harrison quickly ordered her silence with a sharp warning.
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Her public defender sat beside her looking utterly defeated, refusing to mount any further rhetorical defense against the mountains of proof.
The trial was moving at lightning speed, headed toward an inevitable conclusion that would lock her away for decades.