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17KATHERINE, DENNIS AND Phirun were given seats in the third of the three rows of chairs, the wall behind them. The room was only a little bigger than the couple’s townhouse bedroom. Katherine sat on the first chair of the row and Phirun was between her and Dennis. When Mrs. Reyes had earlier entered with her wards, they were flanked by female police officers. They settled on the chairs in the first row, just across the long table where the prosecutor would take her place and face those involved in the preliminary hearing. The children wore masks, the ones that doctors used, that revealed only their eyes and made them look like they had infectious disease. They were also wearing baseball caps, all for the purpose of hiding their identities when they made their way through the crowd of medi