“He saved his younger sister, Clara,” the lawyer continued. “But his father was a powerful man in that town with a lot of people in his pocket. He tried to pin the arson on Jake to collect insurance and silence the boy. The ‘Domestic Safety Alert’ on Jake’s file wasn’t because he was a threat to children. It was a Protection Order.”
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Sandra’s breath hitched. “Protection?”
“Jake wasn’t barred from being around minors,” the lawyer clarified, his voice softening. “The court order was to protect Jake from his father. The system flagged the name ‘Ethan’ and the ‘Safety Restriction,’ but because the records were so old and partially sealed, the hospital’s software miscategorized him as the aggressor instead of the victim.”
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