Seed of Sin
Eventually, Tina was handed a life sentence as the principal offender, while Zach was let off easy with just ten years.
Nevertheless, when Zach was finally released ten years later, my daughter was already in grade school.
He tried to find us, but we had moved out, and the city where we used to live had also changed drastically.
With his parents gone too, he didn't even have a place to stay.
He ended up fighting for turf with some homeless bums under a bridge, who eventually mobbed him and beat him to death, while his rotting corpse was only found after putrefaction.
As it happened in some quiet far flung corner, there were no cameras, and the perpetrators were never found.