"We'll need to look into it, might take a sample and look at how it looks now, just in case that happens. No sense in taking chances."

His heart sunk, and for a moment he didn't have the words. Just utter and pure hatred for the people who had done this and hadn't even bothered to give the kid a name of his own.

It was sick, and evil, and wrong. He'd dealt with abused children before, and it had broken his heart every time, but at least those parents for the most part had the decency to give their children names. To acknowledge that they were people.

"Conner, I think. It sounds like a proper name, not just a few made up words strung together."