The courtroom heard from three boys who still can’t stand in front of Kouri Richins and speak. Their therapists did it for them — reading handwritten words about a childhood prosecutors say was defined by neglect, fear, locked doors, and a father taken by fentanyl.

One child wrote about being forced to parent his younger siblings while the woman in the house disappeared with neighbors or stayed incapacitated. Another described waking to emergency sirens, not knowing what was happening, and spending years afraid her relatives would show up and drag him away from safety. The youngest put it plainly: he was locked in his room, his brother snuck him meals, his animals died around him, and the woman prosecutors say orchestrated all of it threatened to kill his pet when he wouldn’t comply.

All three asked the judge for the same thing: keep her locked away. Forever. They said they finally feel safe — and that safety disappears the moment she walks free.

And while every one of those words was read aloud, Kouri Richins sat in that courtroom and scoffed. She rolled her eyes at her own children’s pain.

Tony Brueski breaks it all down — including what Kouri had to say for herself afterward. That part might make you angrier than everything the boys wrote.

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