Then, his voice growing more anguished and clutching the stand as if to steady himself, he recalled the harrowing detail the night his mother told him of his father’s arrest.

Pictures from the scene showed anguished parents outside the hospital.

For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

Judge Geraint Walters told the court he had "anguished" over Bell’s sentencing.

Democrats have spent the past two weeks in anguished soul-searching over their president’s political future.