What happens when empathy starts protecting the person who caused the harm?

Marcie and Scott confront two stories where sympathy for the adult starts to overshadow the child whose life is actually at stake.

They begin with the Lindsay Clancy case and the wave of public compassion surrounding it. While following the story, Marcie realized something unsettling. She knew Clancy's name. She could not name her three children.

That absence matters.

The conversation turns to toxic empathy, legal responsibility, and the "second victim" narrative. At what point does understanding someone's suffering become an excuse for what they did? And what precedent is created when victimhood begins to overshadow accountability?

Then there is Baby Gabriel.

Born through surrogacy with a serious heart condition, Gabriel survived after ...