“He long guarded the gruesome details inside his mind, unable to speak publicly about the prosecution that had both infused him with deep purpose, but also strained his marriage and eroded his trust in law enforcement. In the fall of 2017, moments after jurors convicted the boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, of murdering Gabriel, Hatami thought it was finally safe to unburden his heart. ‘Sorry,’ he said in a hushed voice, swallowing tears. ‘I was a victim of child abuse.'” Marisa Gerber in the LA Times: To bring a boy’s murderers to justice, a prosecutor wrestled with his own childhood abuse.