Again, why are we here?

The following is an excerpt from Part Two:

During the somewhat-based-on-fact soliloquy, he speaks of how he has been “embarrassed to go to school.” We are well aware of that detail. Having same-sex parents is a highlight at the schools and in the community at large. We do not have the option however, of becoming un-gay. The issue remains a source of much distress for Cole. Having gay parents makes him angry, but that is not what he presented in the opening testimony of the trial: “We all got along fine.”

Now, in his final statement, he carries on about how we were “slave drivers.” Somehow, if I was exploited and driven to slave-like conditions, I don’t think I would be very pleased about it. For him, in his opening statements the day before, there was nothing disheartening about his happy home life. The truth, however, is that he despised us and was jealous of the two foster boys in our care. They were non’t required to contribute to household chores to the same extent as was expected of Cole and his sister.

In the final remarks of his rebuke proclamation he announces how he hates us “now and forever.” That’s nothing like the picture he attempted to paint for the jury. It doesn’t at all sound like somebody who is not distressed and has no issues with their parents. What the jury heard is how he would partake in family projects. How much he appreciates the fact that we taught him things. “We learned a lot about different species of birds and wildlife, and about gardening and how to care for the plants.”

His hate statement does not so much as allude to the slightest disturbance about sexual abuse. He doesn’t bring up a single reference to it. The extensive list of first and second molestation accounts that he had been carefully prepped for to present at the trial is by the wayside. The sordid details that he was so eager to shock the jurors with become a mute concern. Not so much as of a hint of it is whispered. Supposedly, that’s what the trial was about.