Kelley Denham

Affidavit of a Little Fish Kelley Denham

"Crash, bang." I spring out of bed. Two of them are in my bedroom. They escort me to my kitchen where I see my husband, restrained. They sit us both in chairs. It is two-thirty in the morning. I notice some broken wood on my kitchen floor. "Did you kick down my door?" I ask. "Yes," one replies. I can hear the other two in my bedroom. They are going through our stuff. We are not allowed to know what's going on in there. One of them goes upstairs. My kids are sleeping up there. I ask to go up with him. They say no. It seems like hours before he comes back down. They start taking things from the house. The police officers leave. I immediately check on my kids. It appears they slept through all of it. Relief. I call a lawyer right away. From a normal mom of four to an accused hacker facing years in jail overnight, this is my real-life true account of how a pocket-dial changed my family's life forever and how I fought back to protect them.