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Sixteen visits. Five supervisors. Every observer reports the same thing: Steve is attentive, Evie is happy. The supervisors keep changing. The reports keep disappearing. The visits stop for five months. The court grants sole custody anyway.
Steve files a detailed memorandum describing the ambush, the supervision manipulation, and the historical abuse inside the Walsh household. The court destabilizes. The judge recuses. The case is reassigned.
Steve seeks a Temporary Order of Protection in New York. The TOP is granted. At the evidentiary hearing, Tara and her attorneys fail to appear. Twice. A second default is entered. Judge Humphreys recuses himself.
The case passes to a fourth judge. Schauer vacates the Horowitz default and issues two temporary orders of protection — one against each party. The poisoner and the poisoned are treated as symmetrical threats. Steve tells the court a permanent temporary order does not give him a chance to face his accuser. The court tells him he is muddying the record.
Jennifer Jackman resigns as Attorney for the Child without explanation. Her replacement files a motion to suppress all blog content. A visitation conference is converted into a gag order hearing. Steve is declared in default. Judge Schauer orders the blog removed — every post, every photograph, every grandmother's letter. The words are precise. Erase. Deactivate. Delete.
His attorney was in the courtroom. He was not. The phone rang after. The voice on the other end sounded beaten. 'Well, that didn't go well.' The orders were final.
The court orders leave the courthouse. Tara and the Walsh family circulate them to employers, friends, and journalists — presenting them as proof Steve is dangerous. Reporter Michaelanne Petrella receives a direct threat seventeen days before the gag order exists. Walsh Sr. threatens Steve's attorney by voicemail. The SFPD detective investigating the poisoning is neutralized by a court order hand-delivered by a party to the case.