Hi, Judge Boreski.

My name is J.J. Vallow.

I can't be here today to read this letter because I am dead. I was murdered

by the defendant, Lori Daybell, or as I used to call her, mom. See, there are a whole lot of

tragedies that have happened to my family, and all of them are the result of my mom's actions see my daddy was the first of the dominoes to fall the day he was murdered everything good in my world started to crumble actually Actually, that's not true. It started before then. It started when

she met her co-conspirator Chad. She abandoned me for 72 days in early 2019. My daddy, Charles,

was there for every bit, every bit of it.

He tried so hard to keep me on my schedule.

See, I have autism.

And that isn't a bad thing.

It just means that I needed extra attention and routines.

Because my brain and my body had more energy than you could ever imagine.

To help you understand, it might help to tell you about myself.

I went to a really cool school and special school called Lauren's Academy,

at Lauren Institute for Education.

And I loved it. I loved my teachers and my classmates.

They understood me so well, and I just thrived there.

I was able to go to that school because my dad worked so hard and provided me a special education because I am a special boy. I had a best four-legged friend ever, Bailey, my service dog.

Bailey went everywhere with me and kept me calm and safe.

I loved Bailey so much, but Lori got rid of Bailey after my dad was murdered,

but before she murdered me entirely.

See, my world crumbled without my dad without him to protect me everything changed she took me out of my school and told my teachers that my dad committed suicide.

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