Chapter 6: The Media Storm

Chapter 6: The Media Storm
You can't arrest a prominent Chicago architect at his own luxury wedding brunch without the press finding out.
On Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune ran the headline on the front page: "GOLDEN GROOM ASSAULTS 8-YEAR-OLD AT LUXURY RECEPTION."
The article detailed everything. The planted phone, the heavy oak menu board, the blood on the aisle runner. While the police hadn't released the video, an anonymous catering staff member had spoken to a journalist, describing the sickening sound of the board hitting a child’s skull.
The fallout was nuclear.
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Preston’s architecture firm placed him on immediate unpaid leave before terminating his partnership agreement entirely by Friday. The country club revoked my parents' membership. Their wealthy friends stopped returning their calls.
The careful, pristine, flawless image my parents had spent three decades building was reduced to ash in a matter of days.