What No One Else Can Hear by Brynn Stein

Author:Brynn Stein
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-07-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

FINALLY THE court date arrived. The place was packed with reporters and the general public as well as supporters for our side. Sara and Dottie were sitting immediately behind me. Drew had to work, but every staff member not working that day was in court, showing their support. So many showed up that some had to sit on the side behind Liston. Everyone from the center had been trying to avoid that side, but that only made it look like the press and the general public were on his side, since that’s the only place they could sit. Truthfully, most of the press were on his side, but more and more were coming around to my camp.

Somehow a copy of the entire tape showing the block crisis had been leaked and put on the Internet. Sara and Kyle had honestly disavowed any knowledge of how that had happened. Drew and Dottie were staying conspicuously silent on the subject. I decided I didn’t really want to know and stopped asking questions. Even if Drew and Dottie thought I shouldn’t have said anything to the press, I wouldn’t put it past them to take it a step further to try for damage control. In for a penny, in for a pound, I guessed. I wasn’t going to ask them if they did it, let alone what their motivation might have been. In any case, it seemed to work at least partially as intended.

Also on the Internet were numerous blogs and tweets and Facebook entries about the whole thing, stating facts that could only have come from staff members, even videos of our psychologist interviewed by Kyle, telling him exactly how Stevie had been before I arrived, and how he was with me around.

Kyle admitted to making the video so he could use it in case Dr. Lowe wasn’t able to testify in person, but he said he didn’t release it. I have yet to figure that one out, and again, I’m not sure I want to know. Technically, most of that was a breach of confidentiality and could get whoever did it in a lot of trouble. The tape too, for that matter, unless they had Liston’s okay—and I’m sure they didn’t.

Videos of Stevie and Ryan playing with blocks and laughing, along with written commentary within the tape about how the boys had been before I came, were being shown on YouTube. A letter and a copy of the block videos had been sent to Ryan’s parents, the Merrills, and they were both in the courtroom. Before the trial started, they approached me and told me how grateful they were for my part in the drastic improvement they had seen in their son in those tapes. They had shown the video to all their friends and family, having previously had very little in the way of “home video” footage of their son to share. They had been amazed when they saw him joking with Stevie. They were parents who had tried to stay involved but didn’t actually visit that often.

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