He said, 'I have deserved the worst your anger can inflict on me, but I will spare you the scandal of bringing me to justice in open court.

The law, if it found me guilty, could at the worst but banish me from my country and my friends.

I will go of my own accord.

God is my witness that I honestly believed I could save the child from deformity and suffering.

I have risked all and lost all.