. >> reporter: victoria peters can finally smile.good name. >> it was awful. i mean, it just -- it crushed me. and deep inside i was just -- i was just dying. you know, dying. >> what does that money represent to you? >> years of hard labor, stress, you know. changes. terrible changes. >> reporter: for kelli peters that stress, those terrible changes, and this relentlessly bizarre saga, began in 2010 at plaza advice sa stool. kelli was a parent volunteer supervising after-school pickup. as this woman, attorney jill easter arrived, to get easter's young son, when the first grader wasn't there on time jill easter teed off on kelli. >> i said, i am so sorry, he didn't line up fast enough, maybe he just walked slow. >> reporter: for jill easter, and later her husband kent, who's an attorney as well, that word "slow" would activate a find of bad parenting nuclear bomb that would exact a spectacular toll. >> i believe mrs. peters said you're being slow, like falling behind in line, and i think the easters took it as their son was being men