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“I Found My Six-Year-Old Daughter Wandering Alone Along Route 9 Carrying My Baby Boy,” I whispered after clocking out at 6:47 p.m. Her pink Velcro shoe was barely fastened, her expression hollow, and my infant son was wrapped in a kitchen towel, crying so hard he could hardly catch his breath.

Just twenty-three minutes earlier, I had trusted my parents to keep them safe. Twenty-three minutes later, I walked into their candlelit dinner and realized my children had nearly lost their lives. My…