The mystifying part of Gabe leading with the Sophie stuff is that the Sophie Long situation is, unless there has been updates that completely turned the allegations on their head after Michael was arrested (and I mean completely, like the testing showing exposure to meth was fake, the allegations of sexual abuse were completely faked, that kind of "being turned on its head"), would be a case of misconduct by Nick that even today I'm not convinced really counts as an L even if it could get Nick disbarred.
The characterization of the situation I remember was that the choice was between obeying a family court order (which seemed, based on information any belief at the time, to be based on conspiracy between elements of mom's boyfriend's family and employees of the family court) and knowingly sending his child into a situation where she would be sexually abused and (ironically, in retrospect) exposed to hard drugs by irresponsible adults on mom's boyfriend's side of the family...or breaking the law and trying to protect your child the only way left, admittedly an illegal way.
Given how hard Kelly (allegedly via the boyfriend/family) was fighting to scrub everything and bury this, I dunno, I can't really get worked up over that one by Nick. At the time it seemed like someone was trying really hard to put a little girl directly back into a lions den, and trying to shine a light on the situation even in retrospect seems like trying to do the right thing, even if illegal.
The allegations of Nick abusing his own family that they saved for later...lead with that shit. Especially since Nick dropped similar allegations on himself in preparation for this.