Chapter 20 - CELESTE’S CRIMINAL CASE
The confinement case was straightforward.
Video.
Audio.
Exterior bolt.
Three minutes fourteen seconds.
No physical injury.
Her statement.
Charges centered on unlawful restraint/endangerment and child-assault-related provisions appropriate to jurisdiction.
No kidnapping.
No attempted murder.
No “torture chamber.”
It was an inactive maintenance passage.
The USB-related conduct complicated motive but did not inflate the confinement itself.
Separately, prosecutors reviewed unauthorized hotel entries.
Some belonged more naturally to civil and regulatory processes.
For criminal charges, they focused on incidents where evidence showed she knowingly used a credential issued under another identity to enter spaces without permission.
Computer-access statutes did not automatically fit every physical badge use.
Trespass and privacy statutes varied.
The state eventually charged a limited set of unauthorized-entry and identity/credential misuse offenses.
Not all eleven.
Strongest incidents only.
Jonah faced his own charges and employment consequences for knowingly enabling unauthorized anonymous access.
No conspiracy empire.
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Two people.
Repeated bad decisions.
