Chapter 9 - The Handcuff VerdictThe final criminal trial concluded six months later with a unanimous GUILTY verdict on all counts.
The judge delivered a scathing sentence from the bench:
âMark Vance, you exploited your own daughter's health and safety for financial greed, betraying the sacred trust of a father. Vanessa Cole, you used your medical profession as a weapon to poison an innocent child.â
Mark Vance was sentenced to twenty-four years in state prison without option for early parole.
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Vanessa Cole was sentenced to twenty years in a maximum-security facility and stripped of her nursing license permanently.
As the marshals pulled them up in chains to be led to the transport van, I watched them go with calm, quiet dignity, a profound sense of justice filling my soul.
