She Chained My Little Girl So Her Daughter Could Take Her Place—Then I Made Her Leave the Family Portrait Alone.
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Chapter 12 - MIRANDA’S LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
Miranda resolved her criminal case with a misdemeanor plea related to unlawful restraint/endangering conduct involving Clara.
Probation.
Counseling.
Community service.
No unsupervised contact with Clara.
No youth-event planning role at Villa Valestro.
No prison.
No invented felony.
No permanent civil death.
She paid the medical evaluation costs and replaced Clara’s damaged tights and dress, which Clara found hilarious years later because the tights cost twenty dollars while attorneys cost enough to finance a car.
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The law attached consequence to the conduct.
That was enough.
